Modest requiem for a titan: South Africa set for Tutu farewell

South Africa began bidding farewell on Saturday to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid, in a funeral stripped of pomp but freighted with tears and drenched in rain.

Modest requiem for a titan: South Africa set for Tutu farewell
- Humour - After apartheid was dismantled and South Africa ushered in its first free elections in 1994, Tutu chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which exposed the horrors of the past in grim detail.