Archbishop Desmond Tutu is admitted in a cape Town hospital days after a surgery he underwent earlier this month.
The 84 year old Noble laureate, his family said on Saturday, has been in the hospital for three weeks until Wednesday when a recurring infection which had him undergoing surgery reoccurred.
The surgical wound, his wife Leah, said is showing signs of infection. The archbishop had to cancel all travel plans to battle prostate cancer diagnosed in 1997. He then underwent hospital tests for the infect in 2013.
Tutu won reputation for fighting the apartheid that awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. He would then Chair the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission at decree of President Nelson Mandela.
He founder of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation.
