Desmond Tutu was Archbishop of Cape Town between 1986-95 and awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1984. This is Nobel Square, where bronze statues of the four South Africans who have been awarded the Nobel Peace prize are standing, together with their famous words in several languages, radiating out from the statue. Tutu is second from the left and Mandela, first from the right. FW de Clerk, who was jointly awarded with Mandela in 1994 is between Tutu and Mandela, and I'm afraid I've lost the name of the fourth South African to receive a Nobel Peace prize.
If you look closely at the benches you will see that the left one says "White's only" and the right one says "Non-White's only". They have been kept outside the courthouse as a constant reminder of how apartheid separated the citizens of South Africa.
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