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Desmond Tutu to undergo surgery –Family

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8 years ago

September 6, 2016

According to the family of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apartheid hero is set to undergo surgery on Wednesday to treat an infection that has confined him to a sick bed since August.

No further details about his ailment were revealed by Tutu’s family but they noted that it was not related to the prostate cancer he has had for nearly 20 years.

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“The Archbishop will undergo a small surgical procedure on Wednesday to address the root cause of the infections,” the family said in a statement.

Recall that the 84-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town was also hospitalised last year for treatment of an “inflammation”.

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