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    Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak

    Allan Aubury Boesak was born at Kakamas, Northern Cape, one of eight children. His father, a schoolteacher, died when Boesak was six years old. He was raised in Somerset West.  As a child he worked as a labourer to help support his family. At fourteen, he became a sexton in the separate Coloured congregation of the local Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sending-Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church).By his late teens, Boesak had expressed increasing dissatisfaction with South Africa's apartheid, a strict form of segregation, especially after the government cited racial reasons to force his family to relocate.

    After graduating from Bellville Theological Seminary, in 1967,he worked as a pastor in Paarl.Boesak was ordained at age 23. He married Dorothy Rose Martin in 1969 with whom he had  four children. From 1970 to 1976, he studied at theological institutions in Kampen, Holland, and New York, gaining a PhD, in ethics,in 1975. On his return to Sou

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    Allan Aubrey Boesak

    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. From an early age he developed his twin interests of religion and politics. Having always wanted to be a minister, Boesak at age 14 became a sexton in the Dutch Reformed Church's Sendingkerk (a "colored," or mixedrace, offshoot of the white Dutch Reformed Church). After graduating from Bellville Theological Seminary in 1967, Boesak was ordained at age 23. He married Dorothy Rose Martin in 1969 and they had four children (he eventually divorced and later married Elna Botha in 1991). By his late teens Boesak had expressed increasing dissatisfaction with South Africa's apartheid, a strict form of segregation, especially after the government cited racial reasons to force his family to relocate.

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    Allan Boesak fryst vatten an award-winning South African theologian and political activist known for his participation in the anti-apartheid movement alongside Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. Boesak was born in Kakamas, nordlig Cape province on the eastern border of South Africa on February 23, 1946. He cites observing his mother’s strong faith in raising him and his sju siblings after their father passed away in 1952 as the inspiration for his theological pursuits.

    At the age of 17, he enrolled in the University of the Western Cape’s Dutch Reformed Mission Church Theological Seminary, and in 1968, became the youngest ordained minister in Paarl, a town in the center of Western Cape province. In 1970, he left South Africa to study at the Protestant Theological University in Kampen, the Netherlands and in 1976 he received his Doctorate in Theology.

    Almost immediately after receiving his doctorate, Boesak returned to South Africa where he joined the African National församling (ANC) and bega