What God Joined Together (ePub)
The author, a so-called 'Coloured' born and bred in Cape Town, meets and falls in love with a white German woman while he is studying in Germany. The...
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What God Joined Together is a true story of a prohibited love during the apartheid era of South Africa.
The author, a so-called 'Coloured' born and bred in Cape Town, meets and falls in love with a white German woman while he is studying in Germany. The woman's parents' opposition to their daughter's relationship with the African brings such tension to the home that the young lady gives in to a compromise suitor, and writes a 'final' letter to her big love, who had returned to South Africa at the completion of his studies.
The story, that swings back and forth between committing the biggest 'offence' in Afrikaner circles at the time - romantic relationships across the colour bar, dealing with a spy network that reached all the way to Germany, government interception of letters, a rebound towards the compromise suitor, possible reclassification for a South African marriage, a final termination of relationship to both young men, reinstatements, work in South Africa permitted then refused by the South African government, makes the reader giddy with suspense.
The 'happily ever after' is held in abeyance after the exiled young man, in an attempt to reconcile, moves to work with the Moravian Church in Germany at the end of November, 1973, which is followed by a failed reconciliation with the young woman's parents, a further visa refusal, a warning from the Special Branch of the South African Secret Police, and finally an appeal to the South African Prime Minister.
What God Joined Together, originally written in Afrikaans, was an attempt to help assist the scrapping of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and other apartheid legislation.
This version reads like a romantic thriller that also gives an insider's glimpse into South African history and more especially into the lives of people under Apartheid.
A bursary facilitated by the church sent him to Germany in January 1969, where he met his wife Rosemarie while studying Greek and Biblical Hebrew. After completing theological studies at the Moravian Seminaries in Cape Town and Bad Boll (Western Germany), he served as a pastor in West Berlin and Utrecht (Netherlands), with residence in nearby Zeist.
Because of apartheid-related legislation, his marriage led to exile from South Africa. During this period he contended via correspondence with the government of that time to enable a return to the country with his family of seven. A sampleof this correspondence is included in What God Joined Together.
After returning to South Africa in January 1992, the family became involved with prayer and evangelism movements. The blessings and positive impacts in Germany and Holland during exile, inspired the vision of such work in his home country of South Africa. Since 2003 the family has been focusing on compassionate outreach to refugees and other foreigners. This ultimately led to the founding of the organization Friends from Abroad, a low-key umbrella organsiation in which mission agencies and a few churches have been networking since 2006.
Already as a teenager, during the apartheid era in South Africa , Ashley had been impressed with need for a visual local expression of the unity of followers of Jesus according to the prayer of Jesus that his followers may be one (John 17:21-23). This vision became part and parcel of the inspiration to start an evangelistic agency Stichting Goed Nieuws Karavaan in the Dutch town of Zeist in 1983 with believers from different denominations. (He felt that it was the rightful
Later, together with Messianic Jewish and Muslim-background followers of Jesus a low profile organisation Isaac Ishmael Ministries was established in 2010. The need for successors as leaders of Friends from Abroad gave rise to the start of a new organisation in 2021, the Born Again Believers Network.
Ashley and his wife have been blessed with five children and fourtee...
- Autor: Ashley Cloete
- 2022, Englisch
- Verlag: Ashley Cloete
- ISBN-10: 0620997516
- ISBN-13: 9780620997515
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.04.2022
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