Barney Pityana

Nyameko Barney Pityana ( born August 7, 1945 in Uitenhage ) is a South African human rights lawyer and theologian.

Life

Pityana attended on a scholarship, the Lovedale School in Alice. There he developed in high school interest in politics and joined the African National Congress Youth League, the youth wing of the ANC at. In 1963 he was expelled from school after there Afrikaans - speaking teachers were hired and Pityana had the inequality of the education system over the Bantu and the apartheid heavily criticized. After finishing school in Port Elizabeth, he wrote in 1966 at the University of Fort Hare. At the University of reinforced Pityana his political activities, especially in various Christian organizations. He was the founder of the University Christian Movement and co-founder of the South African Students ' Organisation ( SASO ) and, along with Steve Biko, the Black Consciousness Movement. Due to his political activism, he was expelled in 1969.

Between 1973 and 1978 lived Pityana under strict observation by the South African apartheid government, was repeatedly banned and finally expelled from the country. Because a violation of the ban order he came for 18 weeks in prison. In 1976, he was able to make the Bachelor of Laws at the University of South Africa, 1978, he went into exile in Britain. At King 's College London, he graduated in 1981 with the honors degree in theology. In Oxford itself Pityana left as an Anglican priest trained, studied at the University of Oxford theology and was ordained. He served as a parish pastor in Milton Keynes and Birmingham.

In exile Pityana campaigned against apartheid and took a leading role in organizing the international resistance. From 1988 to 1992 he was Chairman of the World Council of Churches ' ​​Programme to Combat Racism in Geneva. In 1992 he went back to South Africa and graduated from the University of Cape Town a doctorate in theology. In 1995 he was elected chairman of the South African Human Rights Commission, the South African Human Rights Commission, appointed as Chairman of the Africa Commission on Human and People's Rights chosen the Organization of African Unity, based in Harare in 1997. 2001 Pityana was elected Vice- Chancellor of the University of South Africa, he held the office from early 2002 to the end of 2010. Since 2005 Pityana Chairman of the Higher Education South Africa ( HESA ).

Awards

  • Honorary Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College Hartford, awarded 1996
  • Honorary Doctor of Law from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, awarded 1999
  • Lifelong member of the Psychology Society of South Africa since 2000
  • Tribute Achievers Award for Leadership, presented in 2001
  • Fellow of King's College London since 2002
  • Honorable Mention of the UNESCO Human Rights, 2002
  • Grand Counsellor of the Order of the Baobab, awarded 2006
Ordination Chancellor (education) Trinity College (Connecticut) University of Buenos Aires Integrated Authority File
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