WITNESS-What I learned photographing the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu

FILE PHOTO: Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks to the media as he arrives to cast his vote during the South African election in Cape Town May 7, 2014. REUTERS/Mark Wessels

, (Reuters) - My earliest memories of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu are from newspaper clippings and video recordings of foreign news bulletins smuggled into South Africa by dissenters to evade censorship.

As an activist allied to the African National Congress, the archbishop was banned from the heavily policed media of the white minority government.