Where the Dividing Wall Fell
On April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the first public hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the East London City Hall....
This is a contemporary on forgiveness and reconciliation, drawing on Ephesians 2:14.
On April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the first public hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the East London City Hall. For forty-eight years, apartheid had constructed walls — legal, physical, and psychological — between Black and white South Africans. The Group Areas Act dictated where people could live. The Separate Amenities Act divided park benches.…
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