When the proposal to regulate religious practitioners in South Africa was put forward by the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities in South Africa in 2017, it was heavily criticised from various avenues.
The Commission had been asked to review some, at times, scandalous behaviour of some religious leaders who had been accused of endangering and defrauding the members of their congregations. The Commission’s recommendations were the result of an investigation into the “Commercialisation of Religion and Abuse of People’s Belief Systems”.
It is six years later, and people like Shepherd Bushiri still get away with stealing millions of parishioners’ money, and