Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Allan Boesak
Born: February 23, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Allan Aubrey Boesak is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric and politician and anti-apartheid activist. He was sentenced to prison for fraud in 1999 but was subsequently granted an official pardon and reinstated as a cleric in late 2004.
Known for:
- Comfort and protest (1987)
- Farewell to innocence (1976)
- Black and reformed (1984)