JOHAN HEYNS

(Johan Adam Heyns)


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Johan Heyns

There is no such thing as white superiority or black inferiority…all people are equal before God…there may not be under any circumstances a political policy based on oppression, discrimination and exploitation…the task of the Church is to protest against unjust laws.
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He was assassinated for his anti-apartheid views and speeches. Most clerics of the Dutch Reformed Church had traditionally supported the Afrikaner colonial view of Black inferiority and apartheid. Heyns was an exception and he was named by Nelson Mandela as a “martyr of his country.”

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Johan Heyns
Johan Heyns
  • Born: May 27, 1928
  • Died: November 6, 1994
  • Nationality: South African
  • Profession: Theologian
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Johan Adam Heyns (1928–1994) was an Afrikaner Calvinist theologian and moderator of the general synod of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) in South Africa. He was assassinated at his home in Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria.