Mission of Malice: what it was like to be part of KwaSizabantu in KZN

30 Aug 2021

Pieter van Zyl

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Erika Bornman was the first to speak out about alleged abuse at religious mission KwaSizabantu in KwaZulu-Natal in 2000. (PHOTO: ER Lombard)

She’ll never forget it: that pervasive feeling of anxiety as she lay in the dormitory late at night, too scared to get up to go to the toilet in case she got into trouble. And then the shame of waking up to discover she’d wet her bed again. What if the other girls saw?

At age 10, Erika Bornman lived in a constant state of terror.

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