Mpho Tutu, the daughter of Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has gotten married to her long time partner Professor Marceline Furth last week in the Netherlands.
The two got married in a small private ceremony in the town of Oegstgeest in the Southern Province of the Netherlands.
Both Tutu and Furth have been married once before their union together. The two had been in a serious relationship for several years before officially tying the knot together.
The happy couple had more than the usual reason to celebrate this holiday season. Image: Twitter.
Despite tying the know in Europe, the couple will have a larger party to celebrate their marriage together in May in Cape Town, South Africa.
Reverend Mpho Tutu works as the executive director of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. In addition she holds Desmond Tutu Chair in Medicine at the university. Tutu further follows in her father’s footsteps of activism working to fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Furth works as a professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Vrije University in Amsterdam.
The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation made the announcement that the couple had tied the knot last week.
Last week Mpho’s father Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary to Leah Nomalizo who he married on July 2, 1955. They have four children.
During the 1980s, Tutu played an active role in drawing national and international attention to the iniquities of apartheid. In 1984, he won the Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts.
Tutu became famous when he became the first black person to be appointed the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg in 1975 where he articulated his support for South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement.
“I realized that I had been given a platform that was not readily available to many blacks and most of our leaders were either now in chains or in exile. And I said, ‘Well, I’m going to use this to seek to try to articulate our aspirations and the anguishes of our people,’ ” says Tutu.
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