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πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Claim for millions against the CRL Commission

After the farce surrounding the South African CRL Commission, its chairman Mosoma is now to be paid millions. If he refuses to pay, legal proceedings will be initiated against him. A letter to this effect from Eberhard Bertelsmann, a former judge at the Supreme Court of Gauteng in Pretoria, has now been served. In it, […]

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Koos Greeff | From KwaSizabantu to Klawer

Our journey from a cult to freedom This is a love story and a life story. It is our journey from the captivity and deception of a cult to the freedom of true Christianity. It begins in Kwazulu/Natal in the late 1970s and ends on the cool west coast of South Africa. I have tried […]

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πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ 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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πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡³πŸ‡± Exoneration for lack of evidence

A Christian pastor from Middelstum, Groningen, was acquitted on Tuesday afternoon of charges of years of sexual abuse of a young woman. According to the judge, it could not be proved that there was coercion. The prosecution had demanded a prison sentence of six years. The accused, Jan-Willem M., former pastor of the revival community […]

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πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡³πŸ‡± The trial is already a judgment

The trial against the ex-KSB leader in the Netherlands is in itself a judgment – namely a judgment on the theology and doctrine of the KwaSizabantu Mission. Here is a reflection by  theologian Dr. Peet Botha. The court proceedings of Kwasizabantu Mission (KSB) senior coworker and international leader within KSB Netherlands branch, Jan Willem Mout […]

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πŸ‡³πŸ‡± Vandaag NEWS: Preacher Jan Willem M. on trial for alleged sexual abuse

Pastor Jan Willem M. stands before the court today in Groningen. He is suspected of repeatedly sexually abusing of a woman. The suspect was for a long time the person in charge of the Dutch branch of the Kwa Sizabantu Mission. He also preached until recently from a Christian center in the north of the […]

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πŸ‡³πŸ‡± 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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πŸ‡³πŸ‡± 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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πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ The Commission delivers an unsorted heap of paper

The good news first: the CRL Commission’s documents have arrived! The bad news: they consist of five ring binders and four small office files, which are a wild mess in terms of organisation, form, and content. After looking through the material, it seems clear that no competent report on the serious abuses at the Kwa […]

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πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ The height of impertinence

The Gauteng Provincial High Court orders the release of documents relating to the KwaSizabantu case – but the CRL Commission disregards the order. Instead, it is pestering former victims of the mission with obscure offers to organise a reconciliation meeting with KwaSizabantu. A request is now to be made for an urgent procedure to ensure […]