Alexander
Boraine is Vice Chairperson of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission established to investigate the nature, causes and extent of
gross violations of human rights committed since 1960. He served as Executive
Director for the Institute of Justice in Transition and the Institute
for Democracy in South Africa and was an employment practices consultant
at the Anglo American Corporation before being elected as a Member of
Parliament, a position he held from 1974 until his resignation in 1986.
Dr. Boraine holds Ph.D. in Systematic Theology and Biblical Studies. An
ordained Methodist minister, Dr. Boraine was elected president of the
Methodist Church of South Africa in 1970. In 1998, he was a visiting professor
at the University of Cape Town. He has lectured widely in South Africa
and abroad including lectures delivered at Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
and the University of Texas Law School. He is co-editor of South Africa
and the World Economy in the 1990s, Dealing with the Past,
and The Healing of a Nation.
