South African cleric and
anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu has had successful surgery to
treat recurring infections that have afflicted him for more than
a year, his family said on Wednesday.
The 84-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner has struggled with
ill health in recent years, but his family has not said whether
his current ailment is related to the prostate cancer Tutu has
battled with for nearly two decades.
"Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's surgery this afternoon
was successful and he was in good spirits," the brief family
statement said.
Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, spoke
against white-minority rule from his pulpit, earning him global
acclaim.
