Word: boesak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversial moments of a week that drew her into the vortex of the country's complex racial politics. King had originally planned to see both State President P.W. Botha and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the moderate leader of South Africa's six million Zulus. But Winnie Mandela and the Rev. Allan Boesak, a founder of the United Democratic Front, an antiapartheid umbrella group, warned that they would not see her if she saw Botha and Buthelezi. King should not meet with the President, insisted Boesak, because his hands were "literally dripping with the blood of our children...
...proposal came under attack from prominent Black leaders like Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Allen Boesak. Much of the criticism for the program centered on the man Bok placed in charge of it, Steiner, his closest friend in the administration...
Especially given the criticism leveled last week by Bishop Desmond M. Tutu and the Rev. Allen Boesak--widely recognized leaders of the very people the university intended to aid by sending interns--it seems likely that Bok will now have to scrap the program, at least as currently conceived. And while administrators may avoid such an embarassing conclusion to their prized project by waiting out criticism and proceeding slowly on the internships in the future, Harvard has clearly lost this round in the continuing battle to win credibility for its engagement-oriented position on relations with South Africa...
...Boesak has said that his detention only strengthened his resolve to fight apartheid, but the leader, who is required to report to the police every day, will obviously be limited in what he can do for the movement...
...Black South Africans understandably lose faith in the effectiveness of the non-violent philosophies of Boesak, Tutu and the rest, younger activists like Stephen Tshewete are gaining greater followings. A former prisoner who has urged that township unrest be brought into white areas, Tshewete's impassioned pleas are becoming increasingly popular. If moderates who want peaceful change are being thrown in jail, youths are saying to themselves, why should they continue to limit their tactics...