The bishop, his bodyguards, organisers and journalists share a table in a restaurant. Mogoba is relaxed. The Uniondale hall is packed. The sound system blares out popular music, flowers are handed out and Mogoba walks in to applause. At the back of the hall is a group with African National Congress flags and stickers on their chests.
Tension rises as some heckle.
An ANC flag is taken off the wall. We have not come to the dorp to fight with the ANC, Democratic Party or the National Party, but we are not afraid of you. The battle lines are drawn, Uniondale is obviously divided. Yet the problems here are similar to little towns across South Africa. The issue which has haunted Mogoba for some time, his suggestion to hang, castrate and amputate criminals, was of no importance in Uniondale, Calitzdorp or Oudtshoorn.