Word: boesak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been arrested since the state of emergency was declared on July 27 are virtually the entire leadership of the United Democratic Front, a multi-racial opposition group which has dedicated itself to non-violent protest methods. The recent detention and release of the Rev. Allan Boesak illustrates what is happening to committed non-violent leaders all over South Africa. Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, was charged with subversion after he called for school and consumer boycotts and withdrawal of foreign investments. He was freed on bail on September 20th after spending nearly a month...
...Although Boesak was greeted by a cheering crowd of 300 as he exited the jail, this man who has galvanized Black dissent over the past decade won't be seeing many crowds in the months to come. The government was careful to place 10 seriously limiting conditions on Boesak's release. He can not leave his home between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m; he can no longer address meetings of more than 10 people, organize boycotts or divestment drives, visit educational institutions, or attend funerals without police permissions...
...Adams pool, or after a Quincy bong-a-thon. All the legitimate voices of the South African liberation struggle: Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress, Archbishop Huddlestone and Rev. Carstons of the International Defense and Aid Fund, Desmond Tutu, Allen Boesak of the United Democratic Front, and the brutally murdered Steve Biko, have repeatedly called for the total isolation and ostracism of South Africa...
...nonetheless, is precisely what was happening in South Africa last week. From almost the moment the protest march was announced, it seemed likely that the organizers would be arrested and that the police would use all necessary force to stop the demonstration. Even more than the conciliatory Bishop Tutu, Boesak has angered the government with his combative oratory, his calls for divestiture and his references to the ruling Afrikaners as the "spiritual children of Adolf Hitler"--a very sensitive point, since many Afrikaners supported Nazi Germany in World War II. Vowing to proceed with the demonstration, Boesak insisted last week...
...were arrested. Students at the University of Cape Town tried to march on the nearby Groote Schuur estate, which contains the official residence of President Botha, but they too were turned back. Later in the day, when it was clear that the march in Cape Town could not succeed, Boesak's wife Dorothy appeared at a press conference and read from a scroll that the demonstrators had hoped to deliver to the imprisoned Mandela. "When our recognized leaders are in jail," it said, "there can only be rebellion in the streets...