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- <text id=90TT1907>
- <title>
- July 23, 1990: World Notes:South Africa
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 23, 1990 The Palestinians
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 54
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- A Sad Fall From Grace
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> As a clergyman and a leading spokesman for mixed-race South
- Africans, the Rev. Allan Boesak was known for invoking his
- moral authority to speak against apartheid. That authority all
- but evaporated last week when he was forced to resign his
- ministry after the press disclosed that he was having an
- extramarital affair with a television producer, Elna Botha, 30.
- </p>
- <p> The minister, who is expected to be divorced by his wife of
- 21 years, tearfully announced the resignation to his stunned
- congregation at the Dutch Reformed Mission Church near Cape
- Town. But he assured his parishioners that he had done "nothing
- immoral." The African National Congress said it is
- "reassessing" his role in the liberation struggle. And the Cape
- Times suggested that the scandal might benefit Boesak's
- political fortunes: "A little humility did nobody any harm."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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