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🇿🇦 KSB and ANC: A new partnership?

South Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile visited the KwaSizabantu mission on Easter Sunday. The former resistance fighter and current ANC leader commented on the allegations against the mission, which have been known for years. He appeared uninformed and ranted that allegations of abuse at KwaSizabantu might just be claims. He said, ‘If there are any […]

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🇿🇦 KSB und ANC – eine neue Partnerschaft?

Südafrikas Vizepräsident Paul Mashatile  hat am Ostersonntag die Mission KwaSizabantu besucht. Der ehemalige Widerstandskämpfer und heutige ANC-Spitzenfunktionär äußerte sich dabei zu den seit Jahren bekannten Vorwürfen gegen die Mission. Er zeigte sich uninformiert und schwadronierte davon , dass Vorwürfe über den Missbrauch auf KwaSizabantu  eventuell nur Behauptungen seien. Er sagte, „wenn es irgendwelche Verstöße gibt, werden wir […]

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🇿🇦 A Fiasco for the CRL Commission

It is a spectacular turnaround in the scandal surrounding the allegations of abuse against the KwaSizabantu Mission. Almost four years after the CRL Commission began so-called “investigations” into the incidents, these have proven to be superfluous: As it now turns out, the commission had no legal authority for such investigations at all. The news portal […]

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🇳🇱 Former KSB church leader faces prison sentence

A six-year prison sentence was demanded for a Christian preacher from Middelstum, Groningen, at the Groningen court on Tuesday for years of sexual abuse of a young woman. The preacher Jan Willem M. (54) is said to have carried out sexual acts with the woman in Middelstum and in Well, Gelderland, between 1999 and 2010. […]

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🇳🇱 Forced to have sex for years

The public prosecutor’s office in Groningen in the Netherlands has applied for a six-year prison sentence against Jan Willem M. (54), a former preacher of the KSB congregation in Middelstum, NL. The man is alleged to have forced a young woman to have sex in the closed religious community Kwa Sizabantu for years. “These are […]

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News24: KwaSizabantu-Gründer Erlo Stegen gestorben

Erlo Stegen, der Gründer der KwaSizabantu-Mission, ist gestorben. Der Missionar, der die umstrittene, sektenähnliche Missionsstation seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1952 leitet, war in den letzten Jahren kränklich. Er starb am frühen Dienstagmorgen, 26.9.23., im Alter von 88 Jahren. Die Mission bestätigte seinen Tod und bezeichnete den streitbaren Mann als “innovativen und einflussreichen Visionär”. Stegen, […]

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News24: KwaSizabantu founder Erlo Stegen has died

KwaSizabantu Mission has described its leader, Erlo Stegen, as a visionary who devoted his life to “God’s cause”. The missionary died on Tuesday. He was 88. A divisive figure, he led the cult-like mission behind multimillion-rand enterprises such as aQuelle and Emseni Farming. Erlo Stegen, the founder of KwaSizabantu Mission, has died. The lifelong missionary […]

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Kwasizabantu – a festering wound

The CRL Commission received numerous letters from victims of Mission KwaSizabantu with detailed accounts. This is a letter from Monika de Jager. It, too, failed to impress the Commission. From: Monika de Jager Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 11:35 AM To: ‘Mpiyakhem@crlcommission.org.za’ <Mpiyakhem@crlcommission.org.za> Subject: Kwasizabantu To whom it may concern. My name is Monika de […]

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“CRL-Report is evasive, irrational and misleading”

The Cultural and Religious and Linguistic (CRL) Rights Commission report on its investigation into alleged abuses at KwaSizabantu (KSB) Mission is evasive and irrational, and news reports based even more misleading. An analysis by Philip Rosenthal, Director, ChristianView Network. 1. Firstly, contrary to news reports, cannot ‘clear’ or find any religious organisation guilty of the […]

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The Big Lie

KwaSizabantu repeated a series of lies so often that almost everyone believed them to be the truth. And then they called it “revival”. The political propaganda method “The Big Lie” (große Lüge in German) was first mentioned by Adolf Hitler is his memoir Mein Kampf  published in 1925. The methodology was perfected by Joseph Goebbels […]