A Pietermaritzburg High Court application by kwaSizabantu Christian Mission director the Reverend Erlo Stegen for an interdict to stop his brother and two breakaway mission pastors from making defamatory allegations against his nephew was on Wednesday adjourned until the end of the month. If granted, the interdict would prevent Stegen’s brother, Bodo Stegen, and breakaway […]
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Exodus from troubled KZN mission
The exodus of worshippers affiliated with the controversial Kranskop Christian mission station kwaSizabantu is growing steadily following the resignation of a key pastor. Barney Mabaso, a leading light who led a branch of the kwaSizabantu church in Tugela Ferry, cut ties with the mission last month, taking his 350-strong congregation with him. Now worshippers from […]
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We helped nail top cop
MORE startling claims about the activities of a KwaZulu-Natal Christian mission emerged this week when its leaders boasted about being behind the arrest of top cop Piet Meyer. Police leading the investigation of Meyer, suspended head of KwaZulu-Natal’s organised crime unit, confirmed that a witness in the trial against Meyer was found at the Kwasizabantu […]
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 […]
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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 […]