Reverend Smith is now the head of the same church where Tutu illegally held rallies dressed up as sermons against the Afrikaner regime. He was also about to get himself in a little hot water. As he turns, a bejewelled red devil's tail can be seen poking out from under his vestments. When the church leaders got wind of this, they forced Nodi to yank the spot and demanded that the reverend, a non-practising homosexual, make a public apology. Later I was interviewed for a college radio station by the gay son of the black Anglican archbishop, only one of the many throbbing ironies I encountered in South Africa.
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