Listen to him and learn what was it like to live during the apartheid and how forgiveness helped south africans move on...
He has campaigned to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
He was the 1st black archbishop of Cape Town and was awarded 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 the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.