Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s family has much to celebrate this New Year as their daughter Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu got married .
Mpho Tutu exchanged vows in a small private ceremony, with her longtime partner Professor Marceline Furth in Oegstgeest a town and municipality in the province of South Holland in western Netherlands, with friends saying Desmond had expressed delight in his daughter’s union.
Their wedding will be celebrated in Cape Town in May.
Furth is a professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Vrije University in Amsterdam and Tutu is currently the executive director of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, and holds the Desmond Tutu Chair in Medicine at the university.
This is the second marriage for both.
Reverend Mpho Tutu, daughter of South African social rights activist, retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu got married to her lesbian partner, Professor Marceline Furth in a private ceremony in the Netherlands on Wednesday December 30th, 2015.
