Archbishop Desmond Tutu who helped to end apartheid in South Africa, has died at the age of 90.
He was an outspoken critic of the country's previous brutal system of oppression against the country's Black majority.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his campaign of non-violent opposition to South Africa’s white minority rule.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said Archbishop Tutu's death marked "another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans".
He praised him as "an iconic spiritual leader, anti-apartheid activist and global human rights campaigner", and went on to descibe him as "a patriot without equal; a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead."
Archbishop Tutu had helped bequeath "a liberated South Africa," he added.