African Activist Archive

Contents: HARARE DECLARATION • THE KAIROS DOCUMENT CHALLENGE TO THE CHURCH A Summary • The newsletter reprints newspaper articles including "South African Protagonists Invoke Christianity" and "Imprisoned by Past Ideology, Pretoria's Ruling National Party a Sluggish Giant" by Allister Sparks, "Banks Urged to Pressure S. Africa" by Michael Isikoff, "Moment of truth arrives" by Walter Schwarz, and "Apartheid seen as the Antichrist" by Clifford Longley. It also includes a copy of the Harare Declaration adopted by leaders of churches from Western Europe, North America, Australia, South Africa and other parts of Africa, along with representatives of the World Council of Churches, the World Association of Reformed Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, and the All Africa Conference of Churches in Harare, Zimbabwe on December 6, 1985. An article and two-page summary on the Kairos document discusses "Challenge to the Church: A Theological Comment on the Crisis in South Africa," which was produced in September 1985 and signed by 153 South African church people. The newsletter mentions divestment, sanctions, the state of emergency, Nelson Mandela, political prisoners, banning orders, exiles, the trade union movement, the Foundation for Peace and Justice, Theology in Global Context Project, the Dutch Reformed Church, the Afrikaner community, Carel Boshoff, Desmond Tutu, the Vaal Ministers Solidarity Committee, the Afrikaner Broederbond, P.W. Botha, Gerrit Viljoen, the African National Congress (ANC), Steven Biko, the South African Defence Force (SADF), Wynand Malan, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP), Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, Inkatha, Anton Rupert, Rembrandt tobacco, Anglo-American, Gavin Relly, Zac de Beer, Hermann Giliomee, the United Democratic Front (UDF), Beyers Naude, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Fritz Leutwiler, Western European banks, Rep. Howard Wolpe, U.S. banks, Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Allan Boesak, the Catholic Institute of International Relations, the British Council of Churches, Father Albert Nolan, Oliver Tambo, Chief Albert Luthuli, the Conservative Party, liberation theology, the Institute of Contextual Theology, and the Stony Point Center.

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