At least 21 boys have died in the Eastern Cape this season alone.
At least 21 boys have died in that province this season.
It said while some departments had language policies, they were lagging behind in ensuring indigenous languages were accorded the same rights and treatment.
During its elections manifesto weekly briefing at Luthuli House on Sunday, the party called for religious practices to be regulated.
A video of pastor Alph Lukau bringing a so-called dead man back to life in Sandton on Sunday has since gone viral on social media.
On Wednesday, the watchdog convened a summit with religious leaders from across the country at the Rhema Bible Church in Randburg to find ways of tackling problems facing the sector.
After a two-day hearing this week into the tragedy, the commission says that after due consideration, it found that the church was granted a compliance certificate prior to the service in December last year.
Three women died in a stampede and 17 people were injured before a church service while seeking shelter from a storm.
The commission is expected to release a report on Thursday into what led to the deaths of three people at Pastor Shepherd Bushiri’s church.
The commission is gearing up to take its fight to the Constitutional Court to ask it to determine if freedom of religion is limitless.
The commission’s Deputy President David Mosoma said they were told that the City of Johannesburg does not have the capacity to implement the laws.
The CRL Rights Commission resolved in 2017 to suspend all initiation schools in Gauteng in a bid to address concerns of criminality and gross malpractices at the schools.
Three women have given harrowing accounts of how Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso allegedly abused them while they lived with him in Umhlanga.
The CRL Rights Commission says that its investigations in 2016 revealed that the Seven Angels Ministries Church in Ngcobo was operating like a cult.
The CRL Rights Commission is briefing Parliament's cooperative governance and traditional affairs committee about their investigation of the church.
CRL Commissioner Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva says there has been major resistance to the intervention of Sars.
The CRL's Mkhwanazi-Xaluva says the recent events involving churches and religious organisations show the need for citizens to be protected.
Three of the brothers, referred to as angels, were arrested and other church members fatally shot by police after they were linked to the Ngcobo police murders.
