DESMOND MPILO TUTU (BORN OCTOBER 7TH, 1931) IS THE FIRST BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP OF CAPE TOWN. HE GAINED INTERNATIONAL FAME AS AN APARTHEID OPPONENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST. THE MOST REVEREND FORMULATED HIS OBJECTIVE AS ‘A DEMOCRATIC AND JUST SOCIETY WITHOUT RACIAL DIVISIONS’. HE CAMPAIGNED AND DEVOTED HIMSELF TO A WIDE VARIETY OF CAUSES INCLUDING FIGHTS AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISEASES SUCH AS AIDS AND TUBERCULOSIS. HE IS ALSO KNOWN AS AN ADVOCATE FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN, GAYS AND TRANSSEXUALS. THE WORK OF ‘THE MORAL CONSCIENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA’, AS NELSON MANDELA DESCRIBED HIM, HAS BEEN AWARDED WITH MULTIFARIOUS HONORS INCLUDING THE 1984 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, THE 1986 ALBERT SCHWEITZER PRIZE FOR HUMANITARIANISM AND THE 2005 GANDHI PEACE PRIZE. IN 2009 PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA PRAISED HIM BY PRESENTING HIM THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM.