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Alan recently retired. A Methodist minister for 33 years who lived off weekly words, he is now exploring silence and solitude … while writing. Having recently written, The bell, banners and blasphemy.
Alan has an Honours degree in Theology and a Masters in Philosophy (Applied Ethics in Economics). He specialises in facilitating Diversity Engagement encounters.
Early in his life when he faced conscription into the apartheid regime’s military, Alan chose to be a conscientious objector. He was arrested and faced trial with a six-year prison sentence as the likely outcome. Alan’s trial was abandoned midway, and he became the last conscientious objector to be brought to trial in apartheid South Africa.
Over the years he has been involved in numerous civil society organisations addressing: gun violence, racism; state-capture corruption; homophobia; a universal basic income grant and lobbying for the decriminalisation of sex work.
Alan is a Fellow of the ninth class of the Africa Leadership Initiative in South Africa.
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