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Founding mothers and fathers are still here |
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To have been at the founding Assembly of the UCCSA in the Full Gospel Church in Durban and still be up to attending an Assembly at Oudtshoorn forty years later is quite some feat. But for the seven people pictured at right, service to the UCCSA has been filled with joy.
They are, from left, Rev Margaret Constable, Rev Peter Lamoela, Mrs Maggie Naidoo, Rev Monare Petso, Mrs Patricia Ryan, Rev Armstrong Makhanya and Rev Neels Beukes. In an address to the Assembly, Rev Constable recalled two of the highlights of her term of office in 1983.
These were having to appear before the South African Eloff Commission to explain why the UCCSA was giving money to the World Council of Churches (in fact it was not); and being part of a delegation of church leaders who met with Cabinet Ministers Pik Botha and Piet Koornhof to express the churches' anger at the forced removal of people of colour under the Group Areas Act.
Their deputation to the Union Buildings was preceded by a day of fasting, and an all night prayer vigil. Mrs Constable said: "I hope this was just one small act which helped bring about the end of apartheid."
In another short address, past Chairman Rev Felix Mokobi of the Botswana Synod thanked the Assembly for including some "Living Ancestors" in this Assembly. |
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