South Africa bids farewell to anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu
South Africa has bid farewell to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid, in a funeral stripped of pomp but freighted with tears and drenched in rain. The requiem mass started at 10am (08:00 GMT) at Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral where, for years, Tutu used the pulpit to rail against a brutal white minority regime. The funeral started with a hymn and a procession of clerics down the aisle burning incense and carrying candles in the church where his remains will be interred in a mausoleum inside the cathedral on Saturday. Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports from Cape Town, South Africa. – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/ – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/ – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #RIPDesmondTutu #DesmondTutu #TutuFuneral
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