JOHANNESBURG, Nov 21: The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu did more than just help dismantle apartheid in South Africa as his “conscience was universal”, Indian parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor said in Cape Town.

Tharoor was delivering the annual Desmond Tutu Lecture hosted by the Foundation established in the name of the revered South African leader in Cape Town on Thursday.

“Tutu’s legacy is often framed by his role in dismantling apartheid, a struggle that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. But to confine him to that chapter alone is to miss the full breadth of his moral imagination,” Tharoor said.

“His fight was never only against racial injustice in South Africa, it was against every system that denied the dignity of the human person. He stood unflinchingly for women’s equality; f

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