SOUTH AFRICA’S ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU CAST SPECIAL VOTE IN CAPE TOWN

Sat 30 October 2021:

At their home in Milnerton, Cape Town, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah cast their special ballots. Officials from the IEC who aided them in voting say the process went smoothly, with Archbishop Tutu, who is 90 years old, in high spirits.

The Nobel peace laureate, who recently turned 90, voted alongside his wife Leah in their Cape Town home.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah have cast their special vote at their residence in Milnerton in Cape Town. @TimesLIVE @IECSouthAfrica @TheDesmondTutu @TutuLegacy #Elections2021 #Elections2021 pic.twitter.com/Q12lDdKIal

— Esa Alexander (@ezaap) October 30, 2021

The couple appeared healthy and in good spirits as they briefly paused for the media outside their front door, flanked by electoral commission agents.

Tutu stood with a walking stick in slippers and a tracksuit, while Leah, 88, used a pulpit frame.

Ordained at the age of 30 and appointed archbishop in 1986, Tutu lobbied for international sanctions against white-minority rule, and later for human rights on a global scale.

As a black South African, he was denied the right to vote until the country’s first democratic election in 1994, which saw Nelson Mandela come to power.

“They are of a generation that felt the full impact of apartheid,” the Archbishop’s office coordinator Mamphela Ramphele said in a statement.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah cast their ballots on Saturday during the special voting day.
Image: Esa ALexander

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