SACC publishes a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Christian beliefs

Date: 22 Sep 1968
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

A Commission of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) published a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Christian beliefs. This came a few months after the SACC was constituted in 1968. By then the National Party had been governing the country for twenty years and the harsh realities of apartheid were beginning to make themselves felt amongst the vast majority of the people. Church denominations, individually or collectively, had made some representations to the government, and had embarked on programmes to assist the victims of apartheid during those years. Some individual church leaders like Fr Trevor Huddleston, Desmond Tutu, Beyers Naudé, Frank Chikane and others had spoken out strongly against apartheid and suffered as a result. They were either recalled, banned or silenced.

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01 O’Malley P. ‘1968’, from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialog, [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org ,(Accessed: 3 September 2012)
02University of Cape Town, (1997), ‘SOUTH AFRICAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES’, [online], available at www.uct.ac.za , (Accessed: 3 September 2012)

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South African History Online. (2012, September 20). SACC publishes a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Christian beliefs. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093667

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South African History Online. "SACC publishes a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Christian beliefs." South African History Online. September 20, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0093667.