Endless headlines about “false prophets” and “dangerous congregations” have prepared the public to accept the CRL Commission as necessary.
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SOUTH Africa has never truly faced a crisis of “criminal pastors” or “false churches”. The narrative of fraudulent prophets is a deliberate construction – manufactured by the media, reinforced by constitutional needs, and sustained by a government too proud to acknowledge the Christian God as the source of the 1994 transition.
Instead of establishing a jobs, housing and poor governance commission to investigate why private companies fail to employ the black majority, or why municipalities led by party cadres fail to deliver basic services, the state has chosen to investigate churches.
Endless headlines about “false prophets” and “dangerous congregations” have prepared the public to accept the CRL Commission as necessary. Its real purpose is not protection, but the normalisation of a godless order where faith is silenced, and compliance is rewarded.
The ANC government deliberately muted the Christian majority in the democratic project. Census data confirming that Christians remain the overwhelming majority has been deliberately excluded to deflate Christian ego and create the false impression of a “multireligious rainbow nation”.
Newspapers, supported by millions of Christians, replaced Bible verses with horoscopes, feminism, LGBTQ gospel, and poly‑religious “solutions” – without backlash from the very believers whose faith was being erased.
The CRL Commission is the final piece in this puzzle: a tool to make society weary of religion, framing pastors and prophets as threats, while governance failures since 1994 remain.
The truth is stark: South Africa’s national social policy is not neutral. It is designed to enthrone darkness over light, evil over good. And because humans often prefer darkness to light – except when it is artificial, like Eskom’s – the policy finds fertile grounds.
KHOTSO KD MOLEKO
Bloemfontein