| LC control no. | n 94061785 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Boraine, Alex |
| Variant(s) | Boraine, Alexander Lionel |
| Associated country | South Africa Great Britain United States |
| Birth date | 1931-01-10 |
| Death date | 2018-12-05 |
| Place of birth | Cape Town (South Africa) |
| Affiliation | South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission Institute for Democracy in South Africa International Center for Transitional Justice South Africa. Parliament Progressive Party of South Africa Methodist Church of Southern Africa New York University. School of Law |
| Profession or occupation | Clergy Political activists |
| Found in | South Africa and the world economy in the 1990s, 1993: t.p. (Alex Boraine) His A country unmasked, 2000: t.p. (Alex Boraine) jkt. (b. 1931 in Cape Town, S.A.) SANB correspondence with author, December 14, 1992 (full name: Boraine, Alexander Lionel; born January 10, 1931) South African History Online website, viewed Feb. 3, 2014 (Alex Boraine; member of Parliament, vice chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; started career as Methodist minister in 1950, age 19; BA, Rhodes Univ., 1956; master's, Oxford Univ., 1962; Ph.D in theology, Drew Univ. Graduate School, NJ, 1966; while lecturer at the Univ. of Natal in 1970, elected pres., Methodist Church of Southern Africa; employment practices consultant for Anglo American, 1972-1974; elected to Parliament in 1974, served for 12 years as member of the Progressive Party, resigned in 1986; then cofounded the Institute for Democracy in South Africa; exec. dir., Institute for Justice in Transition; proposed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, vice chair along with with Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, 1996-1998; prof. of law, New York University, and director of the New York University Law School's Justice in Transition Program, from 1998; founder and pres., International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), New York; returned to South Africa to take over as chair of the ICTJ, Cape Town branch, June 2004) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Boraine, Alex; Methodist clergy, political figure; born 10 January 1931 in Cape Town, South Africa; completed a BA in theology and Biblical studies in Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa (1953); completed a master's degree at Mansfield College, Oxford (1960); was elected as President of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (1970); was seconded to the Anglo American Corporation; served in Parliament for twelve years; set up the Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa (IDASA); formed a new organization called Justice in Transition (1993); was elected and served as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission deputy chairperson (1995); left for New York to work on a book about the TRC and teach courses in the emerging field of transitional justice at New York University Law School (1999); helped establish the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and became its first president; returned to Cape Town to become the director of the Cape Town office of ICTJ (2003)) news24.com WWW viewed December 6, 2018: Alex Boraine remembered for advancing democracy in SA (He died in the early hours of Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at the age of 87) |
| Equivalent(s) | Boraine, Alex, 1931- |
| Associated language | eng |
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