Monday, October 21, 2019

Search And Seizure

Following the close of my city ministry, I was at the receiving end of several search and seizure raids. I responded quite fast, and secured critical information that was left. The raiders evidently didn't have what they wanted, and continued the raids. Yesterday I found an early statement to police:
"About 2 000 papers of personal correspondence and documentation were stolen, dated between 1983 and 2013. Thousands more are unaccounted for, dated from about 1973."
I listed thirty-three categories of documents which were missing: for example, personal letters, medical records, financial statements, school assignments, salary negotiations, lists of donors, writing drafts ... and so on. At the time, I offered a R10 000 reward for the return of personal notebooks.

POSTSCRIPT: I made an omission above. There were also two raids to my vestry shortly before the close of my city ministry.

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