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Article: Trevor Huddleston. (English priest and famed anti-apartheid activist has died at age 84)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 2, 1998
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THE devil does not always have the best tunes. In South Africa the names of Sophiatown, the Community of the Resurrection and Huddleston ring with godly virtue, while the devil was left with ugly Afrikaans sounds such as apartheid, Verwoerd and the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk. There was no doubting which side was God's. And when Trevor Huddleston spoke, however firmly, he sounded almost the caricature of the kindly, cultivated English vicar who might join you for tea on the lawn after croquet. Tall, pale and sweet-faced, he seemed an unlikely champion of poor, black South Africa against the bully boys of the South African police.
He was not the only white Christian ...