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Special Report Transcript Episode 75, Section 4, Time 28:29The exposures made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have filled many white people and many of us in the church of England in South Africa with shock, shame and revulsion. Looking back it is amazing that we were so naïve. Be that as it may, the fact of the matter is that we allowed ourselves to be misled into accepting a social, economic and political system that was cruel and oppressive. We should have been more aware, more vocal and more insightful, but we were not. For this we are guilty. Notes: Frank Retief (Bishop: Church of England in SA) References select each tab to search for references TRC Final ReportWithdrawing from state structures 98 Another way that faith communities - and here in this ostensibly ‘Christian’ land we must speak of churches - expressed opposition to apartheid was by withdrawing from state structures in which they were complicit, particularly the military. 99 It is ... Repression and abuse of religious values and laws 73 Despite the many different religious allegiances of its subjects, the apartheid state saw itself as the guardian of ‘Christian civilisation’ in southern Africa. From the time of the arrival of the colonists in the seventeenth century, ... |
