Is the CRL Rights Commission Chairperson Insulting, Threatening and Harassing Churches and Pastors?

How Far Is She Willing to Go to Regulate the Church?

South African Church Defenders is deeply concerned by a series of public remarks made by the CRL Rights Commission Chairperson, Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva, which many pastors and church leaders experience as hostile, intimidating, and dismissive toward the religious sector.

From SACD's perspective, these statements do not merely propose regulation — they portray churches as dangerous, pastors as untrustworthy, and religious belief itself as something the State must contain.