At KSB, they could learn something important right now. Firstly, those who suppress the truth and never admit to mistakes lose credibility and ruin their reputation. And secondly, once this point has been reached and they stubbornly stick to their course, they encounter growing mistrust. The scandals surrounding the Kwasizabantu Mission and its dogged handling […]
Author: Natli Ashane
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🇿🇦 KSB hat seinen Ruf ruiniert
In KSB könnten sie derzeit etwas Wichtiges lernen. Erstens: Wer Wahrheiten unterdrückt und niemals einen Fehler eingesteht, wird unglaubwürdig und ruiniert seinen Ruf. Und zweitens: ist es so weit gekommen und er hält hartnäckig seinen Kurs, begegnet er wachsendem Misstrauen. Die Skandale um die Mission Kwasizabantu und ihr starrsinniger Umgang damit haben dazu geführt, dass […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]