Obituary: Desmond Tutu, a thorn in the National Party and ANC’s side

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate who was post-apartheid South Africa’s moral compass and the driver of its troubled reconciliation process, has died. He was 90 years old. A tireless social activist and human rights defender, Tutu not only coined the term “Rainbow Nation” to describe the country’s ethnic diversity but, after the first…