Other Achievements
Smith is also a renowned conservationist and owns the Featherbed Nature Reserve in Knysna where he currently (2004) lives. He is also the owner of Rivercat Ferries, which has several craft that cruise in the Knysna lagoon and out to sea.
He is also a co-presenter, with Jeremy Mansfield, of the popular South African television quiz show, A Word or 2, which now in its 10th season. Smith was also a judge for the Miss South Africa Pageant in 1998 and 1999.
The coelacanth "living fossil" was discovered by Smith's father, Professor J.L.B. Smith, a renowned ichthyologist.
Smith was voted 86th in the Top 100 Great South Africans in 2004.
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