Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
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Three Bishop Tutu Nelson Mandela FW De Klerk
1996 The prize was awarded jointly to: CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
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Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
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Nelson Mandela & F. W. De Klerk. They were joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He shared the award with former South African president F. W. de Klerk for their roles in unifying and bring peaceful change to South Africa (post Apartheid)
The Nobel Peace Prize in Literature in 2003 was awarded to South African author J.M. Coetzee. He was recognized for his "well-crafted composition, pregnant with meaning, while at the same time saturated with a deceptive simplicity" in his novels.
Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and F.W de Klerk for peace, and Nadine Gordimer and J.M Coetzee for literature.
The first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Kim Dae-jung from South Korea in 2000. He was recognized for his efforts in promoting peace and democracy in South Korea and for his reconciliation efforts with North Korea.
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Nelson Mandela shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk for their efforts in peacefully dismantling apartheid and laying the groundwork for a democratic South Africa.