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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx1873\adjustright {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 Bishop D Tutu
\par P 0 Box 41842
\par CRAIGHALL
\par 2024
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx1440\adjustright {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 Your Grace
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx7209\tqr\tx7388\adjustright {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 \tab }{\f2\fs16\cgrid0 
\par }{\fs41\cgrid0 The Salvation Army\tab }{\f2\fs16\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx429\tx1207\tqr\tx2917\adjustright {\i\fs17\cgrid0 '
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx1140\tqr\tx3028\adjustright {\i\fs17\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\b\f1\fs22\cgrid0 THE SALVATION ARMY AND THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
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\par }{\f1\fs22\cgrid0 Accompanying this letter you will find:
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\par A submission by The Salvation Army to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  The Salvation Army's policy on Reconciliation A special supplement to The Salvation Army's War Cry.
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\par We are grateful for the opportunity to present this material to the commission and hope that it adds significantly to the historical record of events in our country.
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\par For our own part, the participation in the process by salvationists and particularly the Army's executive officers has been a most meaningful experience for us.
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\par We wish you and all commissioners God's continued blessing on your important task.
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\par With all good wishes.
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx1913\adjustright {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 Yours sincerely,
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx3344\adjustright {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 Paul A du PI
\par Commissioner
\par TERRITORIAL COMMANDER
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx733\tqr\tx3879\adjustright {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 cc\tab General Secretary \_ SACC
\par }\pard \li737\nowidctlpar\tx737\adjustright {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 General Secretary \_ TEASA
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx737\adjustright {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 Encl.
\par \sect }\sectd \sbknone\linex0\headery709\footery709\colsx709\sectdefaultcl \pard\plain \nowidctlpar\tx2507\tqr\tx4107\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f1\fs22\cgrid0 \page }{\f1\fs40\cgrid0 The Salvation Army
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx3241\adjustright {\fs18\cgrid0 
\par OFFICE OF THE TERRITORIAL COMMANDER
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx2101\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 17th March 1997
\par 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx4967\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 Archbishop Desmond M Tutu
\par Chairperson
\par TRUTH & RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx1990\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 Dear Archbishop
\par 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx8000\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 re: SUBMISSION BY THE SALVATION ARMY TO THE TRUTH COMM
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx576\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 We think it most likely that yourself and the other members of the body you represent and which is helping to play so crucial a role in the healing of the }{\f1\fs12\cgrid0 r }{\fs23\cgrid0 
wounds of change' since the late and unlamented apartheid era, will be aware, not only of the existence of The Salvation Army in Southern Africa as an integral part of the universal Church in our country, but al
so of the varied proclamation of our Lord Jesus Christ through our social action and humanitarian programmes for the upliftment of all our peoples.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 Established in this land for 114 years, the 'Army without Guns' needs no introduction. While seeking first 
of all to proclaim the Gospel by lip and life, we have made many positive contributions to South African society and South African Salvationists have so done in the wider context around the world. Our strength, without doubt, has been in the holistic appr
oach of our ministries and that they have been open to all races and creeds at all times. Believing that God has joined these together, we have sought never to divorce them in practical terms.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 The Salvation Army was the first in South Africa to start prison ministry, provide solace and counselling to soldiers on the battlefield (during the Anglo\_Boer War), conduct coffee\_
bar evangelism on the streets and provide those services to the poor and the marginalised which have been termed ' the Sacrament of the Good Samaritan.'
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx3329\adjustright {\fs23\cgrid0 \_2\_ We have, therefore....3
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\par \page }{\f1\fs23\cgrid0 \sect }\sectd \sbknone\linex0\headery709\footery709\colsx709\sectdefaultcl \pard\plain \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx461\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 \_2\_
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx7663\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 continued: SUBMISSION BY THE SALVATION ARMY dd. 17.3.97
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\cgrid0 
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\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 We have, therefore, in recent years been monitoring with no small amount of interest, and a great deal of prayerful support, the way the 'Rainbow
 Nation' has been making its way, with pain and trauma and yet in the midst of joy, to the place of openness and truth, and reconciliation and forgiveness. Thank God, much has been done, though much remains to be done.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 It is in this area that The Salvatio
n Army has been led by God to feel the need of making our own submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. There are ways in which we know that we have failed \_ a growing consciousness brought about in our collective mind by the Holy Spirit.

\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 By 
international policy the Army has refrained from political involvement, though seeking to condemn morally unacceptable practices. In 1986 our then General, Eva Burrows, issued a statement in London that clearly condemned apartheid. With people of all kind
s
 of political persuasion in our ranks, we chose to remain silent, a sin of omission which we now deeply regret. it is true that some Salvationists in fact requested that silence because of the repercussions they would suffer as a result, the regime being 
what it was. Nevertheless this failure dehumanised our people and demonised the agents of change, eroding trust in all relationships.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 All Salvation Army gatherings since our 1883 beginnings have been open to all races. Our failure has been in allowing the 
recognition of separate ethnic groupings, seen as normal at the time, but which fostered the idea of separate development. We did not see God's justice as being grounded in God's love and some of our people have been morally violated by the inequitable di
stribution of resources available to us. We did not, as Moses enjoins, 'follow justice and justice alone' (Deut. 16:20).
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 Part of the heritage of many English\_speaking churches has been pietistic and we are no exception. While we did care for body and soul,
 we ought more strongly to have attacked the evil which wrecked both bodies and souls in the first place. Professing an apolitical stance, we used this to avoid the kind of protest for which the early Salvation Army was known. We became self\_
satisfied and paternal, introspective about own affairs and insensitive to what was happening around us. Though there is a sense in which such a stance enabled us to continue to minister more freely, today we must confess it to be sinful \_
 an affront to God and
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx50\tx2045\tldot\tx3778\tqr\tx4039\adjustright {\f1\fs23\cgrid0 \tab \_3\_ humankind.\tab As an Army \tab 1
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx471\adjustright {\f1\fs21\cgrid0 \_3\_
\par 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx7692\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 continued: SUBMISSION BY THE SALVATION ARMY dd. 17.3.97
\par 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 humankind. As an Army we did not wilfully commit racial acts. Indeed we were able to bring healing and help in some of the worst affected areas simply because we were
 trusted not to become embroiled in party politics. Still, we failed to 'stand up and be counted' when it mattered most \_ and that is painful for us.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 In 1995 we initiated a territory\_wide process of reconciliation which included public commitment by Salva
tionist officers and laity alike to sign pledge cards. Last October, during the visit of General Paul A Rader to South Africa, a specially bound 'Book of Reconciliation"' containing these and other signatures was presented to him. A Cairn of Reconciliatio
n
 was built at the Car] Sithole Centre in Soweto and dedicated by the General. In part it read that we, the Salvationists of the Southern Africa Territory 'recognise each other as brothers and sisters in the family of God, pledge to work together in the sp
irit of forgiveness, love and acceptance and undertake to evangelise through reconciliation'.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 Returning to the South African Council of Churches of our own volition, in }{\b\f2\fs23\cgrid0 1994, }{\f2\fs23\cgrid0 The Salvation Army is committed to following through on the reconciliation proces
s, to a balancing of the priestly and prophetic roles in ministry, to the just redistribution of resources in South Africa and to continue to offer pastoral care to the victims and perpetrators of apartheid\_
era crimes. We are committed to the further development of programmes and policies which will combat racism and strengthen what reconciliation has already taken place while aggressively partaking in our mission to reach the world for Jesus Christ.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 We make this submission without accusation of any one person but rather as an explanation of how The Salvation Army acted within the light of its understanding at that time.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 The Salvation Army would want to uphold the principle of not being involved in party political issues. We will endeavour, however, not to
 hide under this umbrella as an excuse for silence when we should be prepared to speak prophetically and fearlessly on matters of injustice.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \qj\nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 We will strive to uphold unity within The Salvation Army to avoid the divisiveness that could easily result from taking sides when there is not universal 
agreement within The Salvation Army on subjects. We pledge ourselves to continue to work for consensus, being guided by the memory of the dangers of silence which we kept in the dark era of apartheid.
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx50\tldot\tx3840\tqr\tx4053\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 \tab \_4\_ Gathered in our Executive \tab /
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tx1450\tqr\tx7736\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 continued:\tab SUBMISSION BY THE SALVATION ARMY dd. 17.3.97
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 Gathered in our Executive Staff Conference at Lincoln Haven, Kwa Zulu/Natal, we, the executive officers of The Salvation Army in Southern Africa, in love and with respect 
for our predecessors and our comrades now who may not share our view, with great humility make this submission in the name of Jesus and for the greater Glory of God.
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx2394\adjustright {\f2\fs23\cgrid0 Yours very sincerely
\par }{\f2\fs22\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx3339\adjustright {\f2\fs22\cgrid0 Paul A du Plessis
\par Commissioner
\par TERRITORIAL COMMANDER
\par 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx505\adjustright {\f2\fs30\cgrid0 
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx3527\adjustright {\f2\fs22\cgrid0 Margaret du Plessis
\par Commissioner
\par Territorial President, Women's
\par Organisations
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx2238\adjustright {\f2\fs22\cgrid0 William Banks
\par Lt Colonel
\par Financial Secretary
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx2349\adjustright {\f2\fs22\cgrid0 Israel Lengoasa
\par Lt Colonel
\par Personnel Secretary
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx2309\adjustright {\f2\fs22\cgrid0 William Mabena
\par Lt Colonel
\par CHIEF SECRETARY
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx3992\adjustright {\f2\fs22\cgrid0 Lydia Mabena
\par Lt Colonel
\par Territorial Home League Secretary
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\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx2293\adjustright {\f2\fs22\cgrid0 Muriel Banks
\par Lt Colonel
\par Asst. Trade Officer
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\par }\pard \li1737\nowidctlpar\tx1737\tqr\tx2272\adjustright {\f2\fs8\cgrid0 IQ\_~
\par }\pard \nowidctlpar\tqr\tx3032\adjustright {\f2\fs22\cgrid0 Lt Colonel
\par Asst. Personnel Secretary
\par }}