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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   Johannesburg bishop detained under apartheid dies at 89   
      
   The Right Revd Mfaniseni Sigisbert Ndwandwe, a former Bishop-Suffragan   
   of Johannesburg who was detained without trial during the 1980s   
   uprising against apartheid, has died in Jouberton in North-West   
   Province. He was 89.   
      
   Bishop Ndwandwe was first ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic   
   Church and earned the degree of Doctor of Canon Law. After he became   
   an Anglican priest, he and the late Bishop Simeon Nkoane were elected   
   in 1978 as bishops-suffragan of Johannesburg to assist Bishop Timothy   
   Bavin.   
      
   At that time, the Diocese of Johannesburg stretched from the Swaziland   
   border in the east to the Botswana border and the Diocese of Kimberley   
   and Kuruman in the West. Bishop Sigi, as he was fondly known, was   
   based in Jouberton and served the western part of the Diocese, while   
   Bishop Simeon served the eastern part.   
      
   During the uprising against apartheid which began late in 1984, both   
   worked with young anti-apartheid activists in their communities and   
   were subjected to attacks by apartheid forces.   
      
   In 1985, they joined Bishop Desmond Tutu, recently enthroned as Bishop   
   of Johannesburg, and two dozen other priests in an illegal march to   
   police headquarters in Johannesburg in protest against the detention   
   of Father Geoff Moselane of Sharpeville. Father Moselane was later   
   charged with UDF activists in the Delmas treason trial.   
      
   In April 1986, Bishop Sigi’s house in Jouberton was fire-bombed. In   
   response, police arrested him on charges of public violence. They   
   released him, only to re-arrest him under the Internal Security Act,   
   then strip-searched him in public and detained him without trial for   
   99 days on a claim that he had conspired to murder policemen.   
      
   He was later named by the then Archbishop Tutu to a panel of four   
   bishops who were appointed to promote peace during the conflict of the   
   late 1980s and early 1990s in KwaZulu-Natal.   
      
   Bishop Ndwandwe is survived by his wife, Dorcas, his children, Mbuso,   
   Donald and Angie, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. His   
   funeral service is at 8 am on Friday May 18 at the Diocesan Centre of   
   the Diocese of Matlosane.   
      
   Source: https://t.co/QavespWnSN   
      
      
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