South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, 87, has returned home after a two-week stay in hospital, his office said Friday, adding he was "re-gathering his strength".

“Archbishop Desmond Tutu has a quote attributed to him. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.”

Retired archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu announced Thursday that he had quit his role as an ambassador for Oxfam after the British charity was hit by sexual misconduct allegations.

South African retired Anglican archbishop and anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu celebrated his 85th birthday Friday presiding over eucharist at his home church in Cape Town, an AFP photographer said.

South African anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu was discharged from hospital Wednesday following his re-admission on Saturday, his family said.

South African retired archbishop and anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu was on Saturday readmitted to hospital in Cape Town just days after being discharged following surgery, his family said.

South Africa's retired archbishop Desmond Tutu successfully underwent minor surgery to fix nagging infections that have kept him in hospital for two weeks, his wife said.

Desmond Tutu's daughter has been forced to give up her duties as a priest in South Africa's Anglican church after she married a woman, she told AFP on Tuesday.