Desmond Mpilo Tutu (Klerksdorp, Transvaal, South Africa, October 7, 1931) is a South African cleric and pacifist who gained international fame during the 1980s because of his fight against Apartheid. Tutu was the first black South African to be elected and ordained as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and later Primate of the then Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.