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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was born 7 October 1931 in Klerksdorp,
Western Transvaal, South Africa. Archbishop Desmond Tutu studied at the Pretoria Bantu Normal College
from 1951 to 1953, and went on to teach at Johannesburg Bantu High School and
at Munsienville High School in Mogale City.
Tutu then travelled to King's College London, (1962–1966),
where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in theology. During this
time he worked as a part-time curate, first at St Alban's Church.
After the fall of apartheid, Tutu headed the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission. He retired as Archbishop of Cape Town in 1996.
Tutu is generally credited with coining
the term Rainbow Nation as a metaphor for post-apartheid South Africa after
1994 under African National Congress rule. The expression has since entered
mainstream consciousness to describe South Africa's ethnic diversity.
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