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SACC: Vlok must tell the truth
18/07/2007 22:12 - (SA)
Johannesburg - The newly-elected president of the SA Council of Churches, Professor Tinyiko Maluleke, says the decision to prosecute apartheid-era law and order minister Adriaan Vlok is not a departure from reconciliation.
He said: "(The decision) seeks to strengthen reconciliation by bringing out the truth."
Maluleke was briefing the media on the final day of the SACC's triennial national conference.
The new vice-presidents are Bishop Purity Malinga and Puleng Lenka-Bule.
The National Prosecuting Authority announced earlier that Vlok and ex-police chief Johann van der Merwe will be charged with attempted murder next month.
The charges related to an alleged plot to kill Frank Chikane, at present director-general of the Presidency.
Chikane was secretary-general of the SACC when his underwear was lined with a poison that attacked his nervous system in 1989.
The conference also discussed economic and ecological issues.
The conference suggested that more attention be paid on what economic and ecological conditions encouraged crime, especially against women and children.
The new council leaders said the crime problem in the country was a continuing issue that still needed further discussion.
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