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Africa's 'rainbow people' pay respects to Desmond Tutu

The simple coffin, which bore a small bouquet of carnations, was in line with wishes for modesty expressed by the much-loved rights advocate before he died.

Bishop Allen Kannemeyer speaks during a celebration in honour of late South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the St Albans Cathedral in Pretoria. (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

South Africans streamed into a Cape Town cathedral on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the globally venerated anti-apartheid icon, whose body lay in a modest

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