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Tutu, Desmond Mpilo - English
URL: http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/T/Tutu/Tutu.htm

Bishop Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal. His father was a teacher, and he himself was educated at Johannesburg Bantu High School. After leaving school he trained first as a teacher at Pretoria Bantu Normal College and in 1954 he graduated from the University of South Africa. After three years as a high school teacher he began to study theology, being ordained as a priest in 1960.

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Tutu, Desmond Mpilo - English
URL: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0013424.html

South African priest, Anglican archbishop of Cape Town 1986–96 and secretary general of the South African Council of Churches 1979–84. One of the leading figures in the struggle against apartheid in the Republic of South Africa, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1984 for encouraging peaceful reconciliation between the black and white communities.

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Tutu, Desmond on Encyclopedia.com - English
URL: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/t/tutu-d1es.asp

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South African religious leader. Educated in South Africa and London and ordained in 1961, he became (1975) the first black Anglican dean of Johannesburg. As general secretary of the South African Council of Churches (1978-84) he was an outspoken campaigner against apartheid and was awarded (1984) the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent advocacy of reform.

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Desmond Mpilo Tutu Winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Peace - English
URL: http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1984a.html

Desmond Mpilo Tutu, a Nobel Peace Laureate, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

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Desmond Tutu - Biography - English
URL: http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1984/tutu-bio.html

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Bishop Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal. His father was a teacher, and he himself was educated at Johannesburg Bantu High School. After leaving school he trained first as a teacher at Pretoria Bantu Normal College and in 1954 he graduated from the University of South Africa.

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