He smiled when we would have expected him to cry. He smiled when we expected him to hate. He smiled when we expected him to revile. Tshenuwani Simon Farisani is a leader in one of the churches in South Africa. As a leader he felt it his duty to take a stand against the official government policy of apartheid. Apartheid means apartness. It's about keeping the races totally apart and separate from each other. Fortunately, the policy of apartheid has just recently been abandoned in South Africa. The abandonment of this policy, however, came only after years of immense suffering by the peoples of color in South Africa.

Because he stood against apartheid, Rev. Farisani was imprisoned many times. He was arrested first in 1976. Police surrounded his house. First his feelings were that he felt hi…