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Hoofstuk 5: Die post-apartheid verhaal?<br />

p306<br />

the embrace of different races, tribes, nationalities, socio-economic<br />

groups, genders, sexual orientations, age groups, ‘normal’ and<br />

disabled people. To this list one could add the embrace of humans and<br />

nature.<br />

Die uitdaging vir die NG Kerk is dus om weg te beweeg van ʼn eksklusiewe benadering<br />

waar lidmaatskap en bywoning van die erediens beperk was deur rasgroep of enige<br />

ander arbitrêre voorwaarde. Ter wille van geloofwaardigheid sal die NG Kerk getrou<br />

aan die Bybelse riglyne (onder andere 1 Korintiërs 12:12,13) moet (begin) leef.<br />

Om versoening te bewerk, is nie eenvoudig nie, en ook nie goedkoop nie. In aansluiting<br />

by die tweede woord vir versoening sê Koopman (2008:163): “Reconciliation as<br />

hilasmos has to do with the expiation of wrongs and stumbling blocks to atonement (atone-ment).”<br />

Versoening het alles te make met geregtigheid; dit is twee kante van<br />

dieselfde muntstuk. Om dus te praat van versoening beteken dat ook gepraat moet<br />

word oor geregtigheid. Met ʼn agtergrond van (rasse)diskriminasie, sal Suid-Afrikaners<br />

met mekaar moet praat oor ʼn regstelling van daardie ongelykheid. Meiring (2003a:255)<br />

sê:<br />

To speak of reconciliation means to speak out against injustice,<br />

missing issues of affluence and poverty, of unemployment and Aids,<br />

discussing highly emotive issues of land, of affirmative action, of<br />

restorative justice and reparation. Not everyone is overly enthusiastic<br />

about these issues... But the issues are ignored at our peril.<br />

Hiermee stem August (2005:21) volmondig saam: “Critical to the process is the fact<br />

that reconciliation and reconstruction or transformation are flip sides of the same coin.”<br />

Hierin word hy ondersteun deur Smit (2005:363) wat sê “There is... no real<br />

reconciliation without addressing the blatant and crying social and economic divisions<br />

and injustices in society – and vice versa.”<br />

Oor hierdie kwessie van die koste van versoening vertel Meiring ʼn onthullende verhaal.<br />

Een aand nadat hy opgetree het by ʼn gemeente waar hy oor versoening gepraat het, is<br />

hy en ʼn vriend op pad huis toe. Sy vriend sê: “Piet, of course we want reconciliation.<br />

Who in his right mind does not want reconciliation in South Africa? But then, please, at<br />

the lowest possible price. Uitverkopingsprys!” (Meiring 2003a:255). In reaksie hierop<br />

skryf Meiring dan, met verwysing na die Duitse teoloog: “what we need in South Africa

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