Anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu in hospital with persistent infection

Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 10:02 in Health & Medicine

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the South Africa anti-apartheid campaigner, checked into a Cape Town hospital Wednesday for treatment of a persistent infection.Tutu, 81, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for stance against whites-only rule in his country, and remained a global campaigner for peace and human rights until withdrawing from public life last year.He spent...    

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