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	Allan Aubrey Boesak Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Allan Boesak (born 1945), cofounder of the United Democratic Front (UDF), was a leading opponent of apartheid in South Africa and continues to be a spritual and political force.
		Allan Aubrey Boesak was born on February 23, 1945, in Kakamas, N.W. Cape, South Africa.
		Boesak opposed the constitution on moral grounds since it excluded the majority of South Africans, entrenched apartheid and white domination, and accepted ethnicity as the criterion for politics in South Africa.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/allan-aubrey-boesak (843 words)

	Allan Aubrey Boesak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Allan Boesak was born at Kakamas, Northern Cape, as one of eight children.
		Boesak was detained and interrogated and his passport was confiscated.
		Boesak was finally charged with the allegations, convicted on four counts of fraud and sentenced to prison in 1999.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/boesak-a.htm (970 words)

	BOESAK, Allan Aubrey, South Africa, Reformed
		Boesak was born into a family that was active in the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (NGS), a Reformed denomination established for the Coloured population.
		In 1986, Boesak, Naudé, and Bishop Desmond TUTU formed a delegation of church leaders to discuss with President Botha the violent protests in the African townships outside of South Africa's urban centers.
		Boesak was forced to resign from his church and as president of the WARC.
	www.dacb.org /stories/southafrica/boesak_allan.html (734 words)

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		CAPE TOWN -- The news that Allan Boesak has applied to President Thabo Mbeki for a presidential pardon and might be in line for a "high government posting" has been met with dismay by political parties.
		Boesak was convicted of fraud and theft in May 2000 and sentenced to three years imprisonment.
		Boesak's selection as South African ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva in 1994 was scuppered when the fraud and theft charges were brought against him.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2002/08/07/southafrica/BOESAK.HTM (473 words)

	Allan Boesak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak (23 February 1945 -) is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric and was a politician and anti-apartheid activist.
		In the late 1990s Boesak, at the time still chairman of the Western Cape branch of the ANC, was accused of misappropriating R 250,000 of funds received from the Danish investment group Danchurch Aid, the Coca Cola Foundation and the singer Paul Simon.
		Although Boesak applied for a presidential pardon from Thabo Mbeki after his release it was not granted, as the government felt that he had not admitted that he had committed an offense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allan_Boesak (443 words)

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		Boesak was convicted in 1999 for fraud and theft of money entrusted to the Foundation for Peace and Justice, of which he was the chairman.
		Boesak said he was surprised on Saturday when the media reported that he had been pardoned, and his criminal record expunged.
		Boesak said criticism of the government should not be seen as a sign of "distance or enmity" but rather as a sign of a "common commitment to the same goal".
	new.mweb.co.za /tiscali/news/news_story.jsp?content=131667 (498 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/crime1justice
		Boesak is serving a three-year jail sentence for fraud and theft, committed while he was the head of the Justice and Peace Foundation.
		Boesak's counsel argued that the letter's authenticity had not been proved and that the Appeal Court's reliance on it violated Boesak's constitutional right to be innocent until proven guilty.
		Boesak's counsel argued that because his conviction was based on shaky evidence, the letter, his right to freedom had been infringed.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,8001,00.html (652 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		In all, Boesak was found by the Cape High Court in Cape Town to have taken some $216,000 from funds donated to Boesak's Foundation for Peace and Justice by Simon and a Swedish aid agency and which had been meant to help disadvantaged communities.
		Boesak, said Archbishop Tutu, had given far more to his fellow South Africans in his role as an opponent of the race-based system of oppression known as apartheid than he had taken.
		Boesak was released on bail after notice was given that the Chief Justice would be petitioned to allow Boesak the right of appeal.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/250399/News/News923.html (603 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Boesak signs off his parole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Boesak was sentenced to three years imprisonment in May 2000 for fraud, and was granted parole after serving a third of his sentence.
		Boesak said that because of media attention he had not been the easiest of parolees to deal with and he had been impressed.
		Boesak was accompanied to the community correction office by his wife Elna, his niece Melody Cornelius and daughter Sarah-len.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/39900.htm (507 words)

	Anti-apartheid activist convicted of theft, fraud - 3-22-99
		Allan Boesak, a leading anti-apartheid activist in South Africa, was convicted on March 17, 1999 of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to his Foundation for Peace and Justice.
		Boesak was invited by Presbyterian Church (USA) officials to be the 1988 dedication service preacher at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, the daily preacher at the 1984 General Assembly in Phoenix, and the 1996-97 "theologian in residence" at the PCUSA's Stony Point Conference Center.
		Boesak was convicted of stealing about $226,000 donated by a Swedish government aid agency, which was to be used to make voter-education videos.
	www.layman.org /layman/news/news-from-pcusa/allan-boesak.htm (611 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Tutu praises Boesak at welcome party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Former anti-apartheid activist Allan Boesak was feted in Bishopscourt on Friday by Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Njongokulu Ndungane.
		Boesak, flanked by his wife Elna, said he had often grappled with his faith and wondered while in Malmesbury Prison what God could "put in the scale" to balance out his life for what he felt was a travesty of justice.
		Boesak was convicted in 1999 for fraud and theft of money entrusted to the Foundation for Peace and Justice, of which he was the chair.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/437890.htm (456 words)

	CNN.com - Boesak freed from S.African prison - May 22, 2001
		Boesak, 53, was greeted by family members, ruling African National Congress (ANC) politicians and church ministers outside the parole board offices in Stellenbosch.
		Boesak was jailed for three years last May after the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld his conviction on two counts of theft and fraud involving his Foundation for Peace and Justice and donor funds from Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
		Boesak has always maintained his innocence and last October his sentence was cut by 10 months for good behaviour, allowing him to become eligible for parole.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/05/22/boesak.freed (206 words)

	What happened to Allan Boesak? - antiapartheid activist jailed for theft and fraud in South Africa Christian Century - ...
		A damaging scandal over his adultery did not keep Boesak from repeating the offense, and his posh lifestyle is legendary among his neighbors in the well-heeled Cape Town suburb of Constantia.
		Shortly before going to prison, Boesak said that the explanation for everything that had occurred was that the FPJ had been a front for the African National Congress.
		Boesak admits that his accounts were in disarray, but he says that it was impossible to keep them in order.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_19_117/ai_63165333 (930 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Opposition scoff at Boesak's request (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The news that Allan Boesak has applied to President Thabo Mbeki for a presidential pardon and might be in line for a "high government posting" has been met with dismay by political parties.
		The justice ministry on Tuesday confirmed Boesak had applied for a presidential pardon, and that the department was currently considering it.
		Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon told Sapa it was "bizarre", and if Boesak — who had never admitted his guilt, despite being found guilty in the highest courts in the land — was granted a pardon, it would undermine the system of justice in the country.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/86025.htm (568 words)

	CBS News \| Allan Boesak's Fall From Grace \| May 12, 2000 15:31:55
		Boesak and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu were the most prominent opponents of white rule inside South Africa during the last decade of apartheid, which ended with Nelson Mandela's election as president in 1994.
		The judges cleared Boesak on charges of stealing from a Swedish aid grant for voter education ahead of the 1994 all-race elections that ended apartheid.
		Boesak and Tutu often marched arm-in-arm into the teargas and batons of police battling to shore up the crumbling system of white domination they abhored.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/05/12/world/main194891.shtml (604 words)

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		Skosana said in a statement earlier yesterday that the move was necessary to ensure Boesak's safety "due to recent negative media publicity suggesting favouritism on the part of the department by attempting to secure an early release on parole for Allan Boesak".
		Skosana said yesterday Boesak would not be released on parole soon, as the parole board had misdirected itself.
		Boesak -- who is serving a three-year jail sentence for fraud and theft, committed while he was the head of the Foundation for Peace and Justice -- was jailed in May last year after the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld a Cape High Court ruling.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/02/03/southafrica/BOESAK.HTM (538 words)

	The Herald : News
		Cape Town — THE news that Allan Boesak has applied to President Thabo Mbeki for a presidential pardon and might be in line for a “high government posting” has been met with dismay by political parties.
		Mr Boesak was convicted of fraud and theft in May, 2000, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
		Mr Boesak’s selection as South African ambassador to the UN in Geneva in 1994 was scuppered when the fraud and theft charges were brought against him.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2002/08/07/news/n16_07082002.htm (525 words)

	The Hindu : Is Boesak taking the rap for other ANC leaders?
		CAPE TOWN, MAY 15 Dr. Allan Boesak, a heroic figure of the anti- apartheid struggle and founder-patron of the United Democratic Front, the umbrella organisation of internal opposition during the struggle, effectively an ANC front, entered the Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town this morning to begin serving his three-year sentence.
		Boesak had been convicted by the Cape High Court in March last year on three counts of theft and one count of fraud, involving over Rands 1.3 million, and sentenced to six years in prison.
		Boesak also maintained that the funds he has been found guilty of stealing to enrich himself personally were actually used to find the political work of the UDF and the ANC.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/05/16/stories/0316000b.htm (488 words)

	ATS - News
		Boesak, an anti-apartheid leader and a major figure in the fight to free Nelson Mandela, called King a "decisive influence" in his own life as well as in the lives of countless others in South Africa.
		Boesak was born in Kakamas, South Africa, in 1946.
		From King's struggles, Boesak said he learned that "if you do not have the courage to tackle the problems in the world, then you do not have the courage to tackle the problems from within." In the struggle for human dignity, he said, "you have wounds because there is something to fight for.
	www.oberlin.edu /wwwcomm/ats/atspast/ats0396/ats0396_news.html (547 words)

	'Charge is baseless', says Allan Boesak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		THE allegation that he called a fl man a racially derogatory word is "blatant lying" and "totally baseless", Dr Allan Boesak said on Wednesday when approached to comment on the charge of crimen injuria that had been laid against him on Tuesday.
		Dr Boesak, famous theologian, freedom fighter and former leader of the ANC in the Western Cape, admits that he was angry and demanded to know how the lawn would be repaired.
		Dr Boesak says he is "terribly shocked and deeply hurt" by the worker's charge that he swore at them.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,303_1402175,00.html (413 words)

	wfn.org \| Indictment Alleges Boesak and Bookkeeper Stole
		Boesak and Steenkamp also are accused of stealing R447,111 from a "Children's Fund" that was set up to assist young victims of apartheid.
		Boesak was also individually charged with failing to fulfill his duties as a trustee and director of the FPJ.
		It simply means that Allan Boesak is a friend who was one of us during the years of struggle and remains one of us now, whatever his personal circumstances." In California, supporters of Boesak have organized an Allan Boesak Public Support Committee and an Allan Boesak Defense Fund.
	www.wfn.org /1997/05/msg00035.html (443 words)

	Cobeco Online: Analysis and commentary
		Johannesburg, South Africa, May 15, 2000 –"Convicted fraudster" and cleric, Dr Allan Boesak has proclaimed his innocence on allegations of misappropriation of funds from development and charitable organizations under his control.
		Boesak claims that the "missing monies" for which he's been imprisoned were to "help bring down Apartheid." That the Foundation for Peace and Justice (FPJ) was a "front" and that both donors and recipients knew so.
		But if foreign donors and the ANC hierarchy are letting Boesak take the fall to keep their noses clean, they're doing all a great disservice.
	www.cobeconet.com /column/clive/051500.html (380 words)

	No regrets, says Allan Boesak
		Oudtshoorn - He's not sorry for anything he's done in the past, says Allan Boesak, former leader of the African National Congress in the Western Cape and former director of the Foundation for Justice.
		Boesak said during a special service in the United Reform Church that "what I had done, I did on behalf of what's right and justice for all and for my people.
		Boesak served a jail sentence for theft and fraud and has applied for amnesty.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1438532,00.html (268 words)

	The Reformed Ecumenical Council: NE1.5.10
		Boesak, an anti¡apartheid activist, lost his status as minister and resigned his position as President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches following an extramarital affair in 1990.
		In his opening sermon in Eerste¡rivier, Boesak reflected that the time in prison gave him an opportunity to listen to God.
		In an interview with Die Kerk¡bode, the magazine of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, Boesak said he was grateful for this second chance in life.
	community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=12630 (329 words)

	TIME.com: "Vulnerability" -- Feb. 25, 1985 -- Page 1
		Boesak's influence became international in 1982 when he was chosen president of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches, whose constituency of 50 million includes Presbyterians and Congregationalists.
		Boesak, 38, the senior vice president of the council, is married and the father of four.
		Boesak swiftly denied that report, thereby assuring leaders of the straitlaced Dutch Reformed Mission Church (the colored offshoot of the dominant church among white Afrikaners) that the stories about adultery were false.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,961185,00.html (792 words)

	10 O'Clock News \| Ten O'Clock News broadcast
		James Robbins reports that Boesak was arrested after giving a speech to students at the University of Capetown.
		Robbins reports that Boesak is involved in an effort to mobilize 20,000 people; that Boesak had planned to lead the people in a march on Pollsmoor prison tomorrow.
		Robbins reports that Boesak's car was stopped at a roadblock after leaving the university.
	main.wgbh.org /ton/programs/2114_02.html (3804 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Boesak trial set to continue
		Mr Boesak's lawyers applied to have the case overturned following admissions by the state's prime witness that he manufactured allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud against Mr Boesak.
		A former cleric and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Mr Boesak is charged with embezzling over one million rand ($300,000 at the time) donated to the Foundation for Peace and Justice charity.
		Mr Steenkamp was also a key prosecution witness in Mr Boesak's trial, but when he admitted that he had deliberately implicated his boss to cover himself, Mr Boesak's lawyers applied for the case to be thrown out of court.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/237868.stm (494 words)

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