Michael Lapsley, a white Anglican priest, was letter bombed by the White South African government of F.W. de Klerk. He joins Amy to discuss the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa and his role in the freedom schedule. He arrived to South Africa from his home of New Zealand as a pacifist, but witnessing the gross abuse of power and force by the apartheid regime changed his feelings. He supported the movement to resist against the White South African government. He came to believe that in South Africa black people had no option but to use violence to obtain their basic human rights. Father Lapsley now works at the trauma center in Cape Town, South Africa. He discusses the the issues of amnesty as well as the truth commission.
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- Father Michael Lapsley–Anglican Priest who was radicalized against the apartheid regime of South Africa.
