X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Robin Roy Snyman


Robin Roy Snyman

In February 1978 Snyman made controversial remarks concerning Bishop Tutu just prior to his taking up his position as General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches.

Snyman was Warden to the Sisters of the Community of St Michael and All Angels in Bloemfontein (the Community had strong historical ties with Kimberley, through, inter alia, Sister Henrietta Stockdale), from 1986.

St Boniface Church Germiston

Past well-known rectors of the parish have included Fr Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, who later became Dean of Johannesburg and was subsequently deported by the apartheid government in 1972, Fr Robin Roy Snyman who became Dean of Kimberley and later Vice-Provost of Port Elizabeth and Bishop David Albert Beetge who became the first bishop of The Highveld.



see also