As he passed us he took off his hat to my mother. One day," said Tutu, "I was standing in the street with my mother when a white man in a priest's clothing walked past. Here he met Trevor Huddleston, who was a parish priest in the black slum of Sophiatown. His father was a teacher and his mother was a cleaner and cook at a school for the blind. Tutu's family moved to Johannesburg when he was twelve. Klerksdorp, Transvaal, the second of four children of Zacheriah Zililo Tutu and his wife, Aletta Tutu, and the only son. Early lifeDesmond Mpilo Tutu was born on 7 October 1. He has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings. ![]() ![]() Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1. ![]() Since the demise of apartheid in South Africa, Tutu has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. He was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). South Africananti- apartheid and social rights activist and Anglican bishop.
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