A modest, simple affair as South Africans bid farewell to anti-apartheid icon Tutu
CAPE TOWN - South Africans streamed into a Cape Town cathedral on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the globally venerated anti-apartheid icon, whose body lay in a modest pine coffin.
Tutu's body will lie in state throughout Thursday and Friday to allow as many people as possible to say their final goodbyes. Reverend Gilmore Fry told AFP that the rite had been extended to a second day over fears of a possible stampede. "He was so vilified. It was only as a teenager that I realised he was a good guy," she recalled, standing in a queue reflecting a country that Tutu dubbed the "Rainbow Nation".
Lucille Helleger, who heads the Anglican women’s fellowship group in Cape Town, was also in the queue. Following a private cremation, Tutu's ashes will be interred inside the cathedral, whose bells have been pealing in his memory for 10 minutes at midday every day since Monday.
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