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...plunged in its era of governance, buffeted by corruption scandals, an inability to tackle rising crime and unemployment, and the unseemly spectacle of some its core members and backers becoming billionaires while much of the country remains mired in poverty. At the weekend, former ANC stalwart the Reverend Allan Boesak even accused his party of resurrecting "racial divisions and ethnic categorization" through its pro-black affirmative action programs...
...service. Outside, in an emotional farewell, some 20,000 blacks filled the streets. As the flower-draped coffin was loaded into the hearse, they raised their fists in the black-power salute of the A.N.C. and chanted in the Xhosa language, "She is a soldier." Said the Rev. Allan Boesak: "Molly continues in death what she did all her life. She brings us together...
...travel through violence-torn areas in police vehicles. Many journalists fear that riding with the police will affect their credibility in the eyes of blacks. Newsmen and activists alike are concerned that the absence of reporters and cameras could result in increased brutality against protesters. The Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, bitterly charges that the government wants to restrict the press "so that they can murder our children and there will be no witnesses and no record of what they have done...
...youngest member of the clerical vanguard is the Rev. Allan Boesak, 38, who achieved prominence in 1982, when he was elected president of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches, which has 50 million members. The following year Boesak helped establish the United Democratic Front to protest the government's plans for a new constitution. An emotional orator, Boesak has called on Christians to pray for the downfall of a government that he says is run by "the spiritual children of Hitler." Boesak, a married man, was harassed by allegations, reportedly planted by security police, that he was having...
Winnie Mandela is not the only A.N.C. official facing accusations of corruption. Allan Boesak, a popular A.N.C. leader, announced last week that he would withdraw his nomination to be South Africa's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva. He is accused of misusing some $800,000 in foreign contributions to his Foundation for Peace and Justice. He denies any wrongdoing, and earlier, when a team of Johannesburg lawyers investigated and said he had ``enriched himself'' with foreign funds, he accused them of racism. Last week President Mandela accepted his withdrawal tersely, ``with regret...