[2] During his time at school and university, Smith showed an interest in film and camerawork, scripting, shooting, and producing the 50-minute feature documentary, ‘The Garden Route,’ in 1960.
[4] The aim of these schools is to provide value-for-money supplementary education with top-class teachers to prepare learners for their matriculation exams.
Smith, however, never turned any black student away from any class, and made Star Schools more accessible by offering instruction in subjects that weren’t adequately covered by the Bantu Education system - such as mathematics and physical science.
In 1990, Smith began producing The Learning Channel educational television programmes[5] with the financial backing of Hylton Appelbaum, then executive director of the Liberty Life Foundation.
Smith was also a renowned conservationist and owned the Featherbed Nature Reserve in Knysna, where he lived until the sale of the land and company in 2008.