Mourners pay their respects to the late Archishop Desmond Tutu outside St Georges cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, December 27. 2021. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Mourners held a candlelight prayer ceremony outside the Soweto home of late Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday, weeping over the memory not only of a world-renowned lion of the anti-apartheid movement but of a kind and loyal neighbour.
Tutu, who died at 90 on Sunday, lived for a while on the same township street as his longtime friend Nelson Mandela, where residents take pride in being the only people in the world to grow up with two Nobel Peace Prize winners for neighbours.
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