South Africa: Archbishop Makgoba Addresses Abuse in the Anglican Church

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba today announced an inquiry into whether the Anglican Church in Cape Town has met its obligation to keep its members safe from abuse.

He was preaching in Cape Town after the publication of a report in Britain that a former UK lawyer, John Smyth, had perpetrated serious abuses in Britain and Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s. Smyth attended a Cape Town Anglican Church for two periods – the first for a year or two in the early 2000s, and again in the months before his death…