(4 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Town, South Africa – 4 February 2025
1. Wide archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba arriving to brief media
2. Wide of Anglican church banners
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town:
"I accept the panel’s finding unreservedly. I acknowledge that during Smyth’s time in Cape Town, God’s people were exposed to the potential of his abuse, and I and the Diocese apologize to our congregants and the wider community that we did not protect people from that risk."
4. Wide of media briefing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town:
"We are in a repentant spirit. We are not combative. And we are saying this expatriate serial abuser had hurt God’s people, at least the ones that are known, in the U.K. and there is a death involved in Zimbabwe."
6. Various of briefing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town:
"In November when we posted and invited anyone who might have been Smyth’s victim, no one has come forward. No one has come forward. And if they do post-now, this press conference, or any time, they will ordinarily go to our safe and inclusive church, who will deal with them and investigate, and again hold the feet of the church to fire."
8. Focus pull of banner
9. Various of briefing
STORYLINE:
The Archbishop of Cape Town held a press briefing on Tuesday after a review panel found that the Anglican Church in South Africa failed to inform other churches of "high risk" posed by the child abuser John Smyth.
"I accept the panel’s finding unreservedly. I acknowledge that during Smyth’s time in Cape Town, God’s people were exposed to the potential of his abuse, and I and the diocese apologize to our congregants and the wider community that we did not protect people from that risk," Thabo Makgoba said.
According to Makgoba, the panel’s review covered the past actions of the church in South Africa, including its handling of a report on Smyth’s abuse in the U.K. in 1981 and 1982 and in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, received from the Diocese of Ely in 2013.
Makgoba said that so far they have received no reports of abuse in the South African church.
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