John Smyth, who died in 2018, moved first from the UK to Zimbabwe and later on to South Africa The Anglican Church of Southern Africa (Acsa) has apologised for failing to protect the public from ...

JOHANNESBURG — The Anglican Church leadership in South Africa has admitted to failing to disclose sexual abuse allegations against its former member John Smyth, who mistreated children in the ...

And by 2013 the highest levels of the church knew John Smyth had a history of grooming and beating teenage boys. He’s been described as the ‘most prolific serial abuser associated with the ...

Cape Town - A report by the Panel of Inquiry into allegations of abuse by serial abuser, John Smyth in South Africa and the conduct of the Anglican Church of South Africa (ACSA) revealed that ...

Senior barrister John Smyth, who died in South Africa in 2018 at the age of 77, abused over 100 children and young men in the UK and Zimbabwe in the 1970s and 1980s. He met many of them at Christian ...