Joost De Blank
Joost de Blank (b Rotterdam 14 November 1908 – d Westminster 1 January 1968) was the Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa from 1957 to 1963 and was known as the "scourge of apartheid" for his ardent opposition to the whites-only policies of the South African government.
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