Articles by Dennis Cruywagen
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Part one of two part series exploring the construction of race in South Africa's history that diminished the dignity of the ancient first inhabitants of the southern Cape that pre-existed darker-skinned Bantu peoples. A descendant of the indigenous speaks out with a dream of how the gospel can bring about the kind of transformation his ancestors saw. -
The gospel has the power to overcome the apartheid racial classification “coloured” in South Africa — part 2
The continuation of a two part series highlighting the continuation of race constructed in South Africa's history that diminished the dignity of the ancient first inhabitants of Africa's southern Cape. A descendant of the indigenous speaks out with a dream of how the gospel can bring about the kind of transformation his ancestors saw. -
On International Nelson Mandela Day, South Africans long for a rekindling of Mandela's vision of reconciliation
Thirty years ago, Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years as a political prisoner, took the oath of office at the Union Buildings in Pretoria – an act that declared to his country and the world that white minority rule had ended in South Africa. On that autumn Tuesday, all South Africans were finally free and equal before the law. Apartheid was over, the transition to democracy was peaceful, and now we could boldly look at the future. -
Will South Africa's new Government of National Unity finally bring about the hoped-for 'rainbow nation'?
Mandela entered office as South Africa’s first black president resolute to unite his divided people into the rainbow nation that Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu had been preaching about for years. Will the new Government of National Unity finally realize this dream?
