Allan Boesak

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Allan Boesak is a South African anti-apartheid activist, theologian, and politician who played a prominent role in the struggle against apartheid and in post-apartheid public life.

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instanceOf Christian theologian
South African politician
anti-apartheid activist
author
clergyman
human
theologian
activism campaigning for economic sanctions against apartheid South Africa
awardReceived Order of Luthuli
surface form: Order of the Luthuli in Silver

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
countryOfCitizenship South Africa
dateOfBirth 1946-02-23
denomination Dutch Reformed Mission Church
Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa
educatedAt Protestant Theological University, Kampen (Netherlands)
Theological Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church
University of the Western Cape
ethnicGroup Coloured South African
surface form: Coloureds in South Africa
familyName Boesak
fieldOfWork Black liberation theology
surface form: Black theology

liberation theology
theology
gender male
givenName Allan
hasAcademicDiscipline ethics
systematic theology
knownFor calling apartheid a heresy at the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
languageSpoken Afrikaans
English
movement anti-apartheid movement
name Allan Boesak self-link
notableFor opposition to apartheid in South Africa
notableWork Black and Reformed: Apartheid, Liberation, and the Calvinist Tradition
Farewell to Innocence: A Socio-Ethical Study on Black Theology and Black Power
occupation pastor
university professor
placeOfBirth Duke’s Estate, Kuils River, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
politicalParty African National Congress
Christian Democratic Party (South Africa)
Congress of the People (COPE)
positionHeld Western Cape provincial politician
leader in the Dutch Reformed Mission Church
member of the African National Congress
president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
religion Christianity
residence Western Cape
surface form: Western Cape, South Africa
spouse Dorothea Boesak
Elna Botha

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Pollsmoor Prison notableInmate Allan Boesak
Allan Boesak name Allan Boesak self-link