
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, July 9, 1990                   TAG: 9007090224
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA                                LENGTH: Short

S. AFRICAN MINISTER QUITS CHURCH POST

A leading anti-apartheid activist, the Rev. Allan Boesak, has resigned his church positions after South African newspapers alleged he was having an affair with a television producer.

A weeping Boesak told his congregation in Cape Town on Sunday that he had done nothing wrong, but was resigning as their minister.

He apologized repeatedly to the shocked congregation and said he deeply regretted his actions.

"This is one of the darkest days of my life," he told the congregation of the Ned Geref Sendingkerk church in Cape Town's Bellville South area where he has served for 21 years.

Boesak has become one of the most prominent anti-apartheid leaders in recent years. He helped lead campaigns against white-minority rule and toured the world to denounce apartheid.

by CNB