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South Africa bids farewell to anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu

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South Africa has bid farewell 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.
The requiem mass started at 10am (08:00 GMT) at Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral where, for years, Tutu used the pulpit to rail against a brutal white minority regime.
The funeral started with a hymn and a procession of clerics down the aisle burning incense and carrying candles in the church where his remains will be interred in a mausoleum inside the cathedral on Saturday.

Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports from Cape Town, South Africa.

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