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Alex Boraine was born on 10 January, 1931 in Cape Town, South Africa, is a South African politician (1931–2018). Discover Alex Boraine's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 10 January 1931
Birthday 10 January
Birthplace Cape Town, South Africa
Date of death 5 December, 2018
Died Place Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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1931

Alexander Lionel Boraine (10 January 1931 – 5 December 2018) was a South African politician, minister, and anti-apartheid activist.

Alex Boraine was born in Cape Town and grew up in a poor white housing estate.

He would leave high school in Standard 8, two years before matric and started working as a ledger clerk.

He hadn't told his parents about his decision.

1950

As a member of the Methodist Church, he became a lay preacher in 1950.

1956

At 23, he studied at Rhodes University in South Africa where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology and Biblical Studies in 1956.

Having been ordained as a Methodist minister in 1956 and his first position was in Pondoland East.

1962

After being sponsored by rich Methodists, Boraine attended Mansfield College at Oxford University in England and obtained a Master of Arts in 1962.

1966

A further scholarship saw him attend Drew University in the United States where he obtained his PhD in Systematic Theology and Biblical Studies during 1966.

1970

In 1970, he was appointed youngest-ever President of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, a position he held until 1972.

As the head of the Church at the "height of apartheid", he took a stand that the Church "should be multiracial."

During his time as President of the church, he visited mine compounds and began to criticise the working and living conditions of black miners.

1972

In 1972 he was invited to join Anglo American by Harry Oppenheimer to implement changes to the working and living conditions of its black employees as an Employment Practices Consultant, a position he held for two years.

1974

Boraine was asked to stand in 1974 South African general election and was elected to parliament as an MP for the Progressive Party in the Pinelands constituency, won by only 34 seats.

1986

He resigned in 1986 together with Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, believing that the South African parliament was not relevant in establishing a non-racial South African society.

From 1986 to 1995, Boraine headed two South African nonprofit organizations concerned with ending apartheid and addressing the legacy it left behind.

Boraine was one of the main architects of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

1987

The two men founded IDASA, which organized the 1987 Dakar Conference with ANC leaders in Dakar, Senegal.

1995

He was involved in drafting the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No. 34 of 1995.

In 1995, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to be its deputy chair of the TRC serving under Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu from 1996 to 1998.

1998

From 1998 until early 2001, he served as professor of law at New York University and as director of the New York University Law School's Justice in Transition program.

2000

He published five books, including A Country Unmasked, published by Oxford University Press in November 2000, and A Life in Transition, published by Struik Publishers in June 2008.

Other awards include the 2000 honour from Italy, the President's Medal for Human Rights.

2001

In 2001 Boraine co-founded the International Center for Transitional Justice, an international human rights NGO.

He served as ICTJ's president for three years, and subsequently, the chairperson of ICTJ's South Africa office.

Alex Boraine travelled to many countries that were in transition from dictatorship to democracy, at the invitation of governments and NGOs, to share the South African experience.

Boraine was a member of the Advisory Board of Directors and a Global Visiting Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law's Hauser Global Law School Program.

2008

He survived prostate cancer in 2008 but by 2015 he was diagnosed with bone cancer with three to 12 months to live.

2014

Boraine was awarded the Order of the Baobab in 2014.

2018

He died in his sleep on 5 December 2018 in Constantia, Cape Town, at the age of 87.

Boraine died exactly five years to the day that Nelson Mandela died.

He is survived by his wife Jenny, his four children, Andrew, Kathryn, Jeremy and Nicholas and seven grandchildren.