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  • For hundreds of thousands soothed, encouraged and inspired by the churchman during the brutal years of apartheid, however, the name Boesak will always fly high, no matter what the courts decide.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • "All of us are normal for we have been infected by the virus of original sin," he said, adding that God had called Boesak again to show everybody mattered.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The trial of former anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak, on theft and fraud charges involving R9-million, drew to an unexpected conclusion on Tuesday when senior counsel Mike Maritz closed the defence case without calling Boesak to testify.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • The Rev Allan Boesak said: The staying power for me would be the ability of Mr De Klerk to move very quickly now to do those things and to make them concrete.

    From the archive, 3 February 1990: Anti-apartheid activists divided on President De Klerk concessions 2012

  • Boesak said he had warned in 1983 already, at the formation of the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Boesak denied the charges but accepted "full moral responsibility" for the foundation's affairs.

    Bad Times 2008

  • "What we hear now, despite all the justifications, is not a willingness to die for the sake of others, but a desire to kill for a cause that is not necessary to kill for, and that Jacob Zuma himself, I am sure, would not want anybody to die for [him]," said Boesak.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Boesak announced this in Hammanskraal outside Pretoria, after the church's General Synod discussed the question of homosexuality.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Boesak said the poor people in South Africa had been betrayed by those hungry for power, warning that the situation was like a "time bomb" - "real and ticking".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • "The ANC has succumbed to the subtle but pernicious temptations of ethnic thinking, has brought back the language of ethnicity into the speech of the movement and has, as government, brought back the hated system of racial categorisation," Boesak told some 2000 people at a memorial lecture in Cape Town.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

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