Allan Boesak

Allan Aubrey Boesak (born 23 February 1946) is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric and politician and anti-apartheid activist. He was sentenced to prison for fraud in 1999 but was subsequently granted an official pardon and reinstated as a cleric in late 2004. Along with Beyers Naudé and Winnie Mandela, Boesak won the 1985 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award given annually by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights to an individual or group whose courageous activism is at the heart of the human rights movement and in the spirit of Robert F. Kennedy's vision …

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University of the Witwatersrand English

Photograph of Dr Allan Boesak teaching the children


University of the Witwatersrand English

1 Photograph, B/W Print, A4



University of the Witwatersrand English

Dr Alan Boesak speaks at the launch of the UDF on the 20th August 1983 at Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, Cape Town


University of the Witwatersrand English

Reverend Allan Boesak a leading figure in the anti-election new deal campaign in collaboration with the UDF.


University of the Witwatersrand English

Left to Right, Rev Allan Boesak, Lionel Louw (Chairperson of Western Cape Council of Churches) and Barry Streek at the opening of Community House, Salt river, Cape Town, 23 August 1987


University of the Witwatersrand English

F.W. de Klerk with Archbishop Tutu, Allan Boesak and others.




DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 February 1989 English

Letter from Reverend Allan Boesak to the South African Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok announcing his decision to join detainees on a hunger strike.


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