Anti-apartheid bishop dies

ANTI-APARTHEID activist and retired Anglican bishop of Grahamstown David Russell has died, the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town’s office said this morning.

Russell, described as a “a courageous veteran in the church’s struggle against apartheid and injustice”, died in Cape Town yesterday, aged 75, it said in a statement.

Russell died of cancer.

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