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Reverend Musa Xulu

Rev Musa Xulu resigns as chair of Section 22 Committee, alleging state control of religion

Xulu said a draft Christian sector self-regulatory framework released in December had been rushed through meetings presided over by the chairperson of the Commission for the…

Erika Bornman is among a group of survivors who are taking the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities to court over its toothless report.  Photo: Courtesy Erika Bornman

KwaSizabantu Mission cleared of ‘cult’ claims but rape, human rights abuse survivors fight on in court

Former residents and victims who allege they suffered and witnessed abuse at the mission are angry about the ‘weak’ findings of a commission’s investigation

KwaSizabantu Mission assembly hall.

KwasizaBantu Mission welcomes commission report

The report finds that its ‘teachings, principles, and rules (doctrines)’ are within the scope of freedom of religion as contained in the Constitution.

Determined: Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva (above centre) arrives at Hillbrow police station to lay charges against Pastor Paseka Motsoeneng, of the Incredible Happening Ministries, who asked his followers to fund his legal fees as he prepared to battle the Cultural, Religious and Linguistics (CRL) Rights Commission in court. (Vathiswa Ruselo/Sowetan/Gallo Images)

Danger of exposing the dark side of prophets and pastors

The head of the Cultural, Religious and Linguistics Rights Commission investigated church leaders abusing their congregants and refused to be distracted by threats on her life

The porn rating of the award-winning Inxeba does not reflect the film’s content but rather homophobia’s pervasiveness

Rating ‘Inxeba’ as porn is artistic illiteracy

Whatever our private views, they cannot be the grounds on which to ban a work of art

Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva

CRL Rights Commission to go to ConCourt after Ngcobo massacre

The commission said it wanted to determine whether religious regulation was within Parliament’s constitutional mandate, following the shooting

Hope for victims of botched circumcisions

Young men who have lost their penises during initiation may be in line for free reconstruction