<span style="color: #222222;">The funeral mass for South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has taken place at the Anglican cathedral in Cape Town. Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end the racist regime in South Africa, died last Sunday. He was 90. In his eulogy, President Cyril Ramaphosa described Tutu as the spiritual father of the new nation.<br />''<br />''Tutu had insisted there should be no lavish spending on the funeral. He wanted the cheapest available coffin. Family, friends, clergy, and politicians were among those who gathered at St. George's Cathedral for Saturday's service, which had limited numbers because of Coronavirus restrictions. Tutu's widow Nomalizo Leah sat in a wheelchair at the front of the congregation wearing a purple shawl – the colour of her late husband's clerical robes.<br />''<br />''Tutu was one of the driving forces behind the movement to end the policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government against the black majority in South Africa from 1948 until 1991.<br />''<br />''In the main eulogy at the official state funeral today, Mr Ramaphosa described the Archbishop as a crusader in the struggle for freedom, for justice, for equality and for peace. Not only in South Africa but around the world as well.<br />''<br />''Members of the clergy carry the coffin of the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu as they exit the St. George's Cathedral during his state funeral in Cape Town, South Africa.</span><br />