Cleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town

On 7 September 1986, former Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, was ordained as an Archbishop of Cape Town. The former teacher, whose decision to leave the profession was prompted by the implementation of the Bantu Education Act of 1953 which he saw as devaluing Black education,became the first Black head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Tutu was ordained as a deacon in 1960, and became a priest in 1961. He moved to London in 1962, where he completed his Honours and Masters Degree in the Arts in 1966. On his return to South Africa he taught at the Federal Theological Seminary at Alice. Prior to his appointment as Archbishop, Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 16 October 1984 for his untiring efforts in calling for an end to minority rule in South Africa, the unbanning of liberation organisations and the release of political prisoners.