Allan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud

Date: 17 Mar 1999
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Allan Boesak, liberation theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, was found guilty of fraud by Judge John Foxcroft in the Cape Supreme Court. He was accused of embezzling about R1, 3 million, donated by the Danish Investment group Danchurch Aid, the Coca Cola Foundation and the singer Paul Simon for development projects of the Foundation for Peace and Justice in the Western Cape. Boesak siphoned the money into a private trust fund. He was jailed in 2000, but released in 2001, having served just over one year of his three year sentence. Boesak has been readmitted as a church minister after the clearing of his criminal record by South African President Thabo Mbeki in 2005.

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