Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is recovering at his Cape Town home after being discharged from a city hospital on Tuesday.
The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate, who has been treated for the past week for a “persistent infection”, continues to take intravenous antibiotics to treat the infection.
Doctors say there is no connection to the prostate cancer that has been managed for the past 15 years.
His daughter Mpho Tutu, who is also a cleric, saluted his medical team, saying “they have been fantastic and we’ll be doing our best not to disappoint them”.
She said the popular liberation hero was looking forward to spending some time with his wife Leah and watching cricket on television.
Tutu, who is now retired, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986, the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987, the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007 and South Africa Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
He is widely regarded as “South Africa’s moral conscience” and was described by the late President Nelson Mandela as “the voice of the voiceless.”
