The Reverend Kenneth Meshoe is not accustomed to celebrating unless he is presenting a sermon at his local evangelical church.
As the leader of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), a political organization with only four seats in South Africa’s raucous 400-member parliament, where fists sometimes fly, he does not get much time to get his points across. When he does speak, his voice is often drowned out in a cacophony of jeers from members of bigger parties … especially when he stands up to condemn the most liberal abortion laws in Africa.
Meshoe has done this ever since the fall of apartheid and the induction into government of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) in 1994….