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City of Tshwane halts issuing of initiation school permits
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.
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Victims speak of sexual abuse at the hands of Omotoso
Three women have given harrowing accounts of how Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso allegedly abused them while they lived with him in Umhlanga.
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CRL Commission: Conduct of religious leaders must be regulated
The CRL Rights Commission says that its investigations in 2016 revealed that the Seven Angels Ministries Church in Ngcobo was operating like a cult.
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Seven Angels Ministries Church was ‘ticking time bomb’
The CRL Rights Commission is briefing Parliament's cooperative governance and traditional affairs committee about their investigation of the church.
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People don’t want to pay tax - Mkhwanazi-Xaluva
CRL Commissioner Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva says there has been major resistance to the intervention of Sars.
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'Religion in SA is in a state of emergency'
The CRL's Mkhwanazi-Xaluva says the recent events involving churches and religious organisations show the need for citizens to be protected.
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CRL Commission: No law to protect South Africans from ‘abusive’ churches
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.
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CRL says Parliament to blame for cult killings in Ngcobo
On Friday night, a police task team killed seven suspects and arrested another 10 at a church linked to the murder of five police officers in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape.
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CRL Rights Commission to present findings on 'Inxeba' movie
The film ruffled feathers in some parts of the country resulting in a suspension of screenings at some cinemas in the Eastern and Western Cape due to protests.
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PTA Afrikaans-only residence urged to adhere to CRL recommendations
The commission found Goede Hoop was only open only to Afrikaans speaking Christian students or required an essay written in that language to motivate admission.
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CRL Commission welcomes Sars investigation into religious sector
Sars says preliminary investigations into the religious sector suggest that some organisations may not be complying with the law.
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[LISTEN] Holding religious leaders accountable
CapeTalk host Kieno Kammies interviews David Mosomo, deputy chairperson at the CRL Rights Commission.
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CRL Commission, stakeholders discuss corporal punishment at home ruling
The Commission says the ruling makes it difficult for parents to discipline children in a society already plagued by problems such as youth drug and alcohol abuse.
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Parents, traditional practitioners urged to help curb initiates deaths
Earlier this year, the CRL commission revealed an estimated 251 young male initiates had died in eight of the nine provinces between 2014 and 2016.
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‘Govt must help victims of mutilation at initiation schools’
CRL Rights Commission chairwoman Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva says government can no longer turn its back on teenagers who need penile transplants after being mutilated at initiation schools.
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Zuma condemns threats against CRL Rights Commission members
The chairperson of the commission Thoko Xaluva-Mkhwanazi has received threats and insults based on the commission’s investigation.
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'I will sue CRL Commission chair Mkhwanazi-Xaluva'
Several pastors, including Pastor Mboro, have been publicly against the CRL Commission's report to have all religious leaders registered and operate within the law.
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CRL commission chair opens criminal case against Pastor Mboro
The chairwoman of the CRL Commission, Thoko Mkhwanazi Xaluva, says she has been repeatedly threatened and intimidated by Motsoeneng.
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Pastor Mboro threatens church shutdown if followers don't help with lawsuit
Pastor Mboro has threatened to shut down his church if his followers don’t help him with legal bills to sue the CRL Rights Commission.
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Pastor Mboro threatens to go 'on strike'
The controversial religious leader threatened to shut down his church if his followers don’t help him with costs for planned legal action against the CRL Rights Commission.
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Parly urged to implement commission's findings on religious practices
The commission released its report on Tuesday warning that people’s lives are in danger if religious practitioners are not regulated.
