Boesak, Allan, 1945- (Personal Name)

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His The finger of God, 1982: t.p. (Allan A. Boesak)

His Black and reformed, c1984: CIP t.p. (Allan Boesak)

LC database, Jan. 30, 2015 (hdg.: Boesak, Allan Aubrey, 1946- ; usage: Allan Boesak [predominant form], Allan A. Boesak, Allan Aubrey Boesak)

Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 25, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Boesak, Allan; antiapartheid activist, religious reformer, Dutch reformed clergy; born 1945 in Kakamas, South Africa; graduated from Bellville Theological Seminary (1967); received a doctorate from Kampen Theological Institute, Holland; was a leader of Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and major force in getting the World Alliance of Reformed Churches to declare apartheid a heresy (1982); called for the formation of United Democratic Front (UDF) (1983) and became its patron; was a leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Western Cape; was convicted of fraudulently diverting international donor funds during the UDF years to companies associated with his wife and sentenced to six years in prison for fraud and theft; after two years was controversially pardoned; resumed his church-based work; joined the Congress of the People (COPE) (2008-2010))

individual was an antiapartheid activist.