By Megan Powers A South African Defence Force printing press, worth more than R2-million and destined to be a “gift” for the new Swapo-led government in Namibia in 1989, was allegedly smuggled out the country by a military intelligence officer and given to a controversial mission station in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The latest revelation linking the […]
Month: October 2015
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Former missionary threatened
A FORMER senior missionary at the kwaSizabantu Mission in Kranskop said that he has been threatened following reports in the press about abusive practices at the mission and its links to the apartheid security forces. Koos Greeff, who now lives in the Cape, told the Witness that he received a call from a callbox late […]
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Call for mission truth probe
A FORMER pupil at the Domino Servite Mission School at kwaSizabantu in Kranskop has called for a mini truth commission to document the history of abusive practices at the mission. The pupil, who does not want to be named, said: “Thanks to your newspaper for coming out with the shocking happenings in that place. I […]
REACTIONS by the local Christian community to last week’s sensational allegations of physical, emotional and spiritual abuse at the interdenominational kwaSizabantu mission operation near Kranskop have been both searching and sympathetic. Michael Cassidy, the international team leader for the Pietermaritzburg-based African Enterprise group, said: “I do know that many good and fine things have been […]
ONE of the leaders of the kwaSizabantu Mission in Kranskop, which is at the centre of a storm of allegations of abuse, was duped into soliciting millions of rands from Christian believers to invest in a diamond mining venture that flopped in the late 1980s. Hundreds of Christian believers in South Africa and Europe lost […]
THE kwaSizabantu Mission in Kranskop has strongly defended itself against allegations that members have been abused but makes no apology for its methods or beliefs. KwaSizabantu, the largest Christian mission station in the southern hemisphere, stands on a 340 hectare farm, boasts a conference centre that seats 10 000 and offers accommodation to more than […]
By Megan Powers A controversial Christian mission in KwaZulu-Natal, accused this week of abuse and cult-like behaviour, allegedly doubled as an anti-liberation agency for military intelligence and the security branch in the ’80s and early ’90s. Well-placed sources told the Tribune this week that a sophisticated system of information gathering within the Kwasizabantu mission near […]
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Mission school accused of abuse
By Megan Powers Allegations of physical and psychological abuse, sinister mind control and ostracism at a Christian mission in KwaZulu-Natal have been made, sending shockwaves throughout the country’s religious circles. On Saturday theologians and clerics from around the country held a closed crisis meeting in Durban to determine what action should be taken. The Kwasizabantu […]
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Buthelezi: beating is traditional
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said in Cape Town on Thursday that virginity testing and the beating of children are accepted practices of Zulu tradition. Buthelezi was responding to recent allegations that virginity testing and child-beating are taking place at a Christian mission station in KwaZulu-Natal. The IFP leader is known to be a […]
YET another woman has come forward with allegations of systematic beating and virginity testing of children at a KwaZulu-Natal Christian mission station, with an increasing number of callers to the Witness confirming that such activities took place. A 21-year-old woman, who was born at the mission and went to school there, described in detail how […]