The jovial emeritus archbishop retired in 2010 and rarely speaks in public, in a country that sometimes feels adrift without the leadership of its anti-apartheid liberation icons.
Even though South Africa has eased its COVID-19 precautions, the birthday festivities will be muted and largely online.
An online auction of his memorabilia last month raised 3.5 million rand for the foundation named after him and Leah, his wife of 66 years. A South African boy dances on July 10, 1985 around the burning car of a suspected police informer who Tutu earlier saved from being thrown onto the fireHis daughter Mpho Tutu-van Furth, with whom he has authored two books, remembers driving cross-country with her family to bring her siblings to boarding school.
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