Why internationally acclaimed Pulpit activist Peter Storey frets for today's SA

The best interviews are often those where listeners have a sense of eavesdropping in on an interesting conversation. That's the feeling you're sure to get from this podcast featuring anti-apartheid icon Peter Storey focusing on his newly published book, I Beg To Differ. Storey is as forthright now as when he was internationally famous for his Pulpit Activism during the darkest days of apartheid. It's a fascinating discussion in which the former head of the Methodist Church in SA urges his theological successors to become more vocal - and to remember their Christian duty lies with supporting and representing the poor and downtrodden, and not to cosy up to the rich and powerful. Peter Storey is a former bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Duke University in North Carolina. Once chaplain to Nelson Mandela and others on Robben Island, he spent most of his 40-year ministry in inner cities, including District Six and central Johannesburg. He led the South African Council of Churches with Bishop Desmond Tutu when it was a fierce opponent of the apartheid state, chaired the National Peace Accord body intervening in pre-election violence in the Witwatersrand and served as a member of the panel that selected the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Storey founded Life Line SA and Gun Free SA and has preached and lectured in more than 160 cities around the world. He lives in retirement in Simon’s Town and sails on False Bay. He and his late wife Elizabeth had four sons and seven grandchildren. - Alec Hogg