South African Archbishop
Desmond Tutu has been hospitalised with an undisclosed but “persistent”
infection, his foundation said Tuesday.
“Archbishop Emeritus Desmond
Tutu was admitted to a Cape Town hospital on Tuesday for treatment to a
persistent infection,” a statement said.
The 83-year-old Nobel peace
laureate is expected to be discharged this week.
“His family hopes he will be able to return
home in a day or two,” said the statement.
The anti-apartheid icon last
December cancelled plans to travel to a meeting of Nobel laureates in Rome, in
order to battle prostate cancer which he has lived with for 15 years.
In 2011 he was hospitalised for
“minor” elective surgery.
He was hospitalised again in
2013 year for a persistent infection, but tests at that time showed no new
malignancy.
Tutu survived an illness
believed to be polio as a baby and battled tuberculosis as a teenager.
Under apartheid, Tutu
campaigned against white minority rule during the years that Nelson Mandela was
imprisoned and was awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his work.
Officially retired, he is still
outspoken on the world’s injustices, and is widely viewed as South Africa’s
moral compass.
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