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Abstract

In January 1983, Dr Boesak issued a call for a united front in the fight against apartheid, with the focus at that time on former president P.W. Botha’s hateful tricameral parliament. As one of its founder members, Dr Boesak was present at the launch of the United Democratic Front in Mitchell’s Plain in August that year. He served as one of its patrons until 1991 when the umbrella body disbanded. A former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches; Dr Boesak has most recently served as theologian-in-residence at the International Institute for the Study of Race, Reconciliation and Social Justice; Extraordinary Professor of Public Theology at Stellenbosch University; and Honorary Professor of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is currently professor of Black Liberation Theology and Ethics at the University of Pretoria.