What happened to aQuelle?
Most retailers have restocked aQuellé bottled water, even though various independent investigations into KwaSizabantu are still ongoing. The aQuellé water brand was pulled from the shelves of several retailers after News24’s exposé on KwaSizabantu in 2020.
Who owns KwaSizabantu mission?
Erlo Stegen
Erlo Stegen, founder and leader of the KwaSizabantu mission, at the 90th birthday function of IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi (left) and former president Jacob Zuma in 2018.
Who is the owner of aQuelle water?
KwaSizabantu
KwaSizabantu, a 50-year-old Christian mission in KwaZulu-Natal, founded by Erlo Stegen, owns the aQuellé sparkling water plant and supplies the bottled water to various retailers.
What happened at KwaSizabantu?
KwaSizabantu Mission, near Kranskop in northern KwaZulu-Natal, faces allegations of rape, child abuse and human-rights violations. They have conducted an independent investigation into the allegations after claiming the CRL commission was biased against them.
Who manufactures aQuelle?
aQuellé is owned by Ekhamanzi Springs that is owned by the mission. When you drink aQuellé, you are directly contributing to the financial well-being of a “house of horrors”, as one of KSB’s survivors told News24 in our documentary, Exodus.
Who owns valpre water?
The Coca-Cola Company
Valpre is a bottled spring water by The Coca-Cola Company available in South Africa. The brand is bottled in two forms, “still” and “sparkling”. Coca-Cola South Africa announced on the 12 October 2009 that it will establish a new Valpre Water Bottling plant in Heidelberg, Gauteng.
What happened at KwaSizabantu Mission?
On 12 August 2006, Kwasizabantu Mission officially opened the Emseni Care Center (meaning “place of grace”). The Emseni Care Center provides free care and counselling to HIV and AIDS patients. Some of the patients have allegedly fully recovered and is HIV free today.
Where is KwaSizabantu operating?
Kwasizabantu Mission (KSB) goes back a long way in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. It was founded in 1970 by South African evangelical and revivalist preacher Erlo Stegen. Built in a rural area on 540 hectares of land, it is one of Africa’s largest missions, with thousands of worshipers.
What did aQuelle do?
aQuellé has appointed an external panel to investigate allegations published in a News24 exposé over the weekend detailing allegations of gross human rights abuse and financial crimes at Mission KwaSizabantu (KSB), according to a letter sent to its retail customers on Monday.
How is the reputation of the KwaSizabantu?
The Evangelical Alliance of South Africa said on Wednesday that the practices at KwaSizabantu Mission in KwaZulu-Natal were damaging the reputation of other churches. A number of allegations of human rights abuses and money laundering have been levelled at the mission in a News24 expose.
Where is aQuelle made?
KwaZulu-Natal
aQuellé is a very recognisable brand of mineral water, farmed from the natural springs at KwaSizabantu’s sprawling farms in KwaZulu-Natal and from a natural resource they purchased in Franschhoek in the Western Cape.