| | It is now almost five years since Canon John Collins passed away. With his departure, many of us lost a dear friend. As a people, we lost a fellow-combatant for justice and liberation, a dependable ally in the struggle to abolish the system of apartheid ... As early as 1954, when he visited South Africa, he had the possibility not merely to study the situation as it then was, but more, to understand the nature of the apartheid system. From his assessment at the time, it was clear to him that South Africa, which he described as a 'madhouse' , was heading for disaster. Even when some members of his own church within South Africa denounced him for being a foreign, meddling priest, Canon Collins did not waver in his involvement in the struggle against racist domination, precisely because he understood the dementia of this system. |
