21 April 1998
The SACP joins millions of South Africans and others around the world in paying tribute to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston.
Huddleston lived a full and active life, guided by a strong moral passion and an ability to identify with the struggles of people across the divides of geography, culture and background. Huddleston was also deeply imbued with a sense of non-sectarianism, a preparedness to work with the widest range of forces against the evil of apartheid.
He is remembered by the SACP in particular for his contribution to building the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, itself a model for what was to become one of the great international social movements of the 20th century - the world-wide anti-apartheid movement.
Huddleston was one among many religious figures who unmasked the apartheid regime's pretense that it was leading a "moral Christian crusade against communism". The SACP is proud to have been in the same trench as comrade Archbishop Trevor Huddleston.