The World - News from March 2, 1986

A leading anti-apartheid activist, the Rev. Allan Boesak, leaped from the altar at a funeral in the black township of Lawaaikamp to rescue a black man from vengeful mourners who believed the man to be a police informer. The Rev. Freddie Booi, a black Anglican priest, declared during his eulogy, “There is an informer in the church, and there he sits.” Boesak, who is of mixed race, rescued the bleeding man, shielded him and helped him into his own car, and drove him to safety.