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To Retire on August 31 NEWSPAPER a l t a r b re a d s Priests’ and People’s of the from PITSO'S CHURCH The Sister in Charge BUTCHERY Convent of St. John the of the Divine FOR THE BEST 12 Donnelly Road, QUALITY MEAT PROVINCE Wentworth, Durban PO Box 12183. Shop 5, Bathoeng Street of Jacobs. 4026. IKAGENG SOUTHERN AFRICA TEL. 3471 Price 19c {+ 1c GST) Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper. FEBRUARY, 1981 ARCHBISHOP RESIGNS To retire on August 31 THE Right Revd Phillip Russell, as Dean of the Province, has received the resignation of the Most Revd Bill Burnett, Archbishop of Cape Town, with effect from the end of August of this year. The Archlmhop wi‘j* ^e sw g- ^ the normal date of retirement of a Diocesan Bishop, m 1982. His decision to seekan earlier retirement is motivated by his desire that ha successor should have been in office at least a year before next session of Provmcial Synod which will be in November 1982. As required by Canon Law for it to be effective, the Bishops of the CPSA have accepted the Archbishop’s resignation and have issued the following statement: It is with profound sense of loss that we, the Bishops of the CPSA have agreed to the resignation of Bill Burnett as Archbishop of Cape T o w n e e thank God for the fruitful years which he has given to this high office in the Church. We shall sorely miss the outstanding leadership which he has given in the Synod of Bishops and throughout the Church of the Province. W? Relieve that retirement as Metropolitan will enable God to use him more widely for the renewal of the Church. We assure him of our prayers and encouragement in this further phase of his apostolic ministry.” Elective Assembly to meet in April attend but not to vote. the old Canon, the Synod of The election of the new Bishops sat separately from Archbishop will be on the The new Canon 4 allows one clergyman and one the Elective Assembly, and basis of new Canons adopted merely communicated, if they by Provincial Synod in layman from each of the other 16 dioceses of the CPSA to wished to, through their December. 1979, which will President, their views on the allow far greater participation attend, speak and vote in the Elective Assembly. candidates nominated. In by the Province as a whole addition, the Bishops may now than was hitherto the case. Another change is that now the Bishops will also be also make nominations during Under the old Canons the the course of the Elective Archbishop of Cape Town was allowed to attend the Elective Assembly. elected by all the licensed Assembly with the right to speak but not to vote. Under Except for the participation clergy of the diocese and a of the House of Bishops and certain number of laymen the expansion of Provincial elected by Diocesan Synod, representation at the Elective with two bishops, two priests Previous Assembly, the procedure for and two laymen from outside electing the Archbishop is the the diocese being allowed to Primates same as that for the election of a Bishop. Since the appointment of Voting is by secret ballot, Bishop Robert Gray as with clergy and laity voting Bishop of Cape Town in separately. To be elected a 1847, there have been eight candidate must obtain a two- Archbishops of Cape town. thirds majority of both houses. Baldly Dr Williams West Jones, If this is not obtained after five' succeeded Bishop Gray in or six ballots, an adjournment 1874, but became Arch­ is called and fresh nomina­ Speaking bishop only in 1897. tions may then be made. Thereafter came: In the election of the Arch­ 1909: William Marl­ bishop, however, the decision borough Carter, of the Elective Assembly K.C.M.G., D.D. requires the acceptance of the 1931: Francis Robinson Bishops who, once the voting Phelps, D.D. has been completed, with­ 1938: John Russell draw from the Elective Darbyshire, D.D. Assembly to consider whether 1948: Geoffrey Hare they will accept the decision. Clayton, D.D. If, after four days, there is a 1957: Joost De Blank, deadlock, the choice of the D.D. M etropolitan will then be 1964: Robert Selby delegated to the Advisory Taylor, M.A., D,D. Committee and four other The Archbishop re­ 1974: Bill Bendyshe Bishops, two chosen by the tiring? It’s unthink- Burnett, M.A., D.D. Elective Assembly and two by The Rt Revd Bill Bendyshe Burnett abill! the Synod of Bishops. Church leaders plea IK ,for conscientious objectors The President of Confer­ In their statement, the ence, Rev Howard Kirkby, church leaders said they had and the Secretary Designate, noted ‘with great concern’ Rev Stanley Mogoba, have that Mr Yeats had been added their voices to the found guilty and had been plea by church leaders for a sentenced to 12 m onths in re-examination of the status detention barracks. of conscientious objectors Their statement added: by the South African ‘By means of a letter Defence Force. addressed to the Registering Their statement, issued Officer, South African jointly with other church Defence Force, Charles leaders, came after Charles made known that he is a Yeats (25), a member of the conscientious objector. It is Anglican Church, who had his belief, based on Chris­ refused to do any form of tian pacifist grounds, that military service, was sen­ he cannot serve as a com­ tenced by a military court batant in any war. to one year in detention ‘He regards the present barracks. war in which South Africa is The court refused engaged as one that could Charles Yeats’s plea to be be halted by negotiation sent to a civilian prison involving representative rather than a military one. leaders of all race groups. The chairman of the ‘As a result, he views > military tribunal which tried participation in the South the objector, Col P J de African Defence Force, even Klerk, who adjourned the in a non-combatant capa­ hearing on several occasions city, as helping to prolong to consider whether a fine the military conflict. Never­ should be imposed, said the theless he has indicated court accepted that Mr clearly to the Registering Yeats’s beliefs in non­ Officer that he is willing to violent methods were do a non-military form of genuine. TO PAGE THREE t/ Leaders call for < non-military service belief. ‘We urge the Government national service. at the earliest possible ‘Through the pastoral opportunity to regularise ministry of the Church and the position of conscien­ through other sources it is tious objectors through the well known to us that there provision of alternative non­ are many young men facing military forms of national the same dilemma as Charles service, and in the mean Yeats, that is, whether to time to exercise in regard to undertake military service Charles Yeats, and all other in conflict with their con­ conscientious objectors, the science or to suffer the humanity that should be harsh penalty of refusal. characteristic of a Christian ‘Decisions differ accor- society, ding to personal attitudes Apart from Mr Kirkby and temperaments. Some an(j Mr Mogoba, other submit to military service church leaders to sign the with a heavy heart. Some statement are Mr Chris leave the country, and Aitken, general secretary of others, like Charles Yeats, the Presbyterian Church of steel themselves to face the Southern Africa, the Rt Rev penalty of refusal inside Francois Bill, moderator of South Africa. the Tsonga Presbyterian ‘We have recently been Church, the Most Rev Bill profoundly moved by the Burnett, Anglican Arch­ strength of Peter Moll’s and bishop of Cape Town, Rev Richard Steel’s belief, which £>r j 0hn de Gruchy, chair- resulted in their spending a man 0f the United Congre- year in detention barracks, gational Church of Southern with numerous spells in Africa, the Most Rev Denis solitary confinement. Hurley, Archbishop of ‘We urge the Government Durban and president of the to understand that in the Southern African Catholic present circumstances of Bishop’s Conference, the Rt our country, conscientious Rev Philip Russel, Anglican objection can be based on Bishop of Natal and Arch- genuine religious and moral bishop Elect of Cape Town. tliers will * b -^?, / follow Yeats —Archbishop CAPE TOWN: Unless Daily News Correspondent century at least held the apartheid was abolished view that conscientious ob­ “many more citizens of all jection to military service races would find for refusing to be trained is an appropriate response themselves unable to live to perform military service in painful situations of with the gross inequalities in the armed forces once military conflict.” of the South African again raises the urgent He asked for Christians society, the Anglican necessity for some form of to pray for Mr Yeats and Archbishop of Cape Town, alternative national service “tihe many who have the Most Rev Bill Burnett, for young men who share sought asylum elsewhere.” says in his monthly h i s convictions,” He added: “Unless we newsletter. Archbishop Burnett said. see a substantial dismantling of the struc­ Archbishop Burnett was “I do not doubt the sin­ tures of apartheid, pur­ commenting on the trial cerely held convictions of posefully pursued by our and conviction of cons­ other young Christians government, there will be cientious objector Charles who accept the unpleasant many more citizens of ail Yeats, 25, form er head boy duty of serving in the races, young and old, who of Hilton College, who was armed forces.
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