Desmond Tutu, A Nobel Prize Winner

Desmond Tutu, a winner of noble prize award and a dogged fighter of human rights was born in Klerksdorp, South Africa. He was known for strongly opposing apartheid and he resisted the act vehemently. After the disappearance of the horrifying era of apartheid, he continued to wrestle against HIV/AID, racism, sexism, transphobia and homophobia. He caught the anti-apartheid spirit after his encounter with a black priest named Trevor Huddleston who was an anti-apartheid English African Bishop. Desmond Tutu is a popular South African cleric and his journey to becoming a servant of God began when he took a theology course at St Peter’s theological college situated in Johannesburg and proceeded to obtain bachelors and master’s degrees in King’s college London.

He became an Anglican priest in December 1961. His first carrier after studying at Bantu Normal College in Pretoria was a role of a teacher in Bantu High School Johannesburg and Munsienville High School situated in Mogale city. He won a Nobel prize award in 1984. Desmond Tutu was the acting leader of Truth and Reconciliation committee when Nelson Mandela was elected as the leader of South Africa in 1994 which led to Desmond resigning as an Arch bishop to mainly focus on his new appointment. He was very proactive even after he was diagnosed of prostate cancer in 1997.

He earnestly expressed his displeasure over church’s disposition towards the unwholesome act of homosexuality. One of his popular statement is ‘if God as they say is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God’. He also received the presidential medal of freedom 2009. He is presently holding a recording of becoming the first black African Anglican Dean. He became a teacher not because that was his main desire but because he was financially incapacitated. His initial focus was becoming a physician but he ended up becoming an elder statesman recognised for his impact in South Africa.