The hopes of the numerous victims of abuse on Mission KwaSizabantu for justice and reparations have been put another damper on for the time being. After the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) has been stalling the victims for two and a half years with […]
Shortly before his death in December 2021, Friedel Stegen, for decades the second director of the KwaSizabantu mission, admitted in a letter to the European KSB branches his guilt for abuses at the mission and expressed shock at the true conditions at the mission. The letter is in German and was handwritten, see below. Here […]
A Christian mission and crime – according to popular opinion, this does not go together. However, the example of the KwaSizabantu mission shows that it does go together. Shaken up by the abuse scandals of the Catholic Church, however, society internationally has made the experience in recent years of having to take a closer look […]
The South African CRL Commission has given itself a deadline by which to complete its investigation into the numerous cases of abuse by Mission Kwa Sizabantu. Friday of this week is supposed to be the deadline. One of the numerous witnesses to the epic abuse drama at Mission KwaSizabantu had his jaw dropped in the […]
The KwaSizabantu scandal has long been a scandal of the institution investigating it. Now the witnesses are threatening the CRL Commission with legal action because it is not fulfilling its mandate. Witnesses who testified in public hearings against KwaSizabantu Mission have written to the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, […]
Two years after the hearings into the harrowing allegations of human rights abuses against KwaSizabantu commenced, no findings have yet been made. The CRL Rights Commission now says it will release its report in the first quarter of 2023. Those who testified are incensed after being re-traumatised by the process and they still do not […]
The Swiss canton wanted to close the free church school in Kaltbrunn because of abuse. As files now show, the parents prevented it. by Enrico Kampmann The long silence continues. After it became known in the summer that there had been serious sexual assaults and systematic abuse of children at the Christian School Linth (CSL) […]
The wondrous career of Lidia Dube Death, Kidnapping, Witch Hunt Proudly she tells the audience about her background: She was the leader of a childhood gang, bullying the neighbourhood into doing what she wanted. She goes into detail about her childhood escapades, proudly describing the power she wielded by intimidating young and old in her […]
The accusations are similar in every detail – but KwaSizabantu denies everything It will not have been easy for the former leaders of the KwaSizabantu Switzerland mission to commission an investigation into sectarian practices in their ranks, the outcome of which they could have guessed. The result is well known, the disaster described in detail. […]
After 23 years, www.ksb-alert.com has finally been confirmed Today we are talking about us. We have been writing for the website ksb-alert for 23 years, which was conceived and launched in 1999 by a US American, a Swabian, a South African, a Dutchman and myself. Today, a group in Middle Africa looks after and is […]