News—Church in South AfricaSouth African bishop calls for calm ahead of anti-migrant deadlineProtest groups say undocumented migrants must leave by June 30.Luke CoppenJun 24, 202611ShareA South African bishop appealed for calm Wednesday ahead of a deadline, set by protest groups, for undocumented migrants to leave the country.Bishop Thulani Victor Mbuyisa, C.M.M. Credit: Screenshot from @sacbcofficial3253 YouTube channel.Bishop Thulani Victor Mbuyisa, C.M.M., said June 24 that the Church understood the protestors’ underlying concerns but believed they could not be resolved by targeting foreign nationals.ShareMbuyisa, the chairman of the justice and peace commission for the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, said: “As the June 30 deadline for all undocumented foreigners to leave South Africa approaches, we appeal for calm and urge all those involved in anti-migration protests to refrain from violence against foreign nationals and to respect and uphold the rule of law.”“We also call on the public to refrain from spreading misinformation, inflammatory rhetoric, and unverified videos that may further fuel fear, panic, and social tension.”South Africa, a country of about 65 million people that had a system of racial segregation known as Apartheid from 1948 to 1994, has seen a new wave of anti-migrant protests and attacks in 2026. Previous waves occurred in 2008, 2015, and 2019.Recent flashpoints have included KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, the Eastern Cape, and the Western Cape. Videos shared on social media depict vigilantes armed with sticks, clubs, and stones attacking suspected undocumented migrants.South Africa officially has more than three million foreign-born residents, principally from the nearby countries of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, and Lesotho. But there are also an unknown number of undocumented foreigners, mainly from the same four nations, with smaller numbers from Ghana and Nigeria.South Africa suffered 350,000 job losses in the first quarter of 2026, mainly affecting young people. Its unemployment rate of 32.7% is one of the world’s highest.The organization March and March, which describes itself as a citizen-led movement for immigration reform, has called for all undocumented migrants to leave South Africa by June 30. The declaration is supported by other groups opposed to illegal immigration, but the government has stressed that the deadline has no legal validity.March and March’s founder Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, a former radio presenter, has asserted that nationwide demonstrations planned for June 30 will be peaceful.“All we are asking for is for illegal immigrants to leave the country and for the government to enforce the laws that already exist,” she said June 23.In his June 24 statement, Mbuyisa, the 53-year-old Bishop of Kokstad, said: “We recognize that the underlying concerns which have prompted these protests — such as unemployment, crime, and pressures surrounding informal trading — are real and should not be dismissed.”“The economic hardships faced by many in our country are indeed serious and deserve a responsible and comprehensive response. However, lasting solutions will never be found in violence, scapegoating, or threats against foreign nationals.”South African Church leaders have expressed increasing alarm in 2026 about rising hostility toward migrants. There are almost 4 million Catholics in South Africa, with a significant foreign-born presence in big city parishes.Leave a commentThe country’s Catholic bishops issued a pastoral statement May 20 condemning “acts of violence, intimidation, and displacement directed at migrants and refugees.”The statement, signed by bishops’ conference president Cardinal Stephen Brislin, blamed the upheaval on failures in governance, accountability, and leadership.It said: “Competition for scarce resources such as jobs, housing, and public services has further intensified tensions between locals and migrants, particularly in economically disadvantaged communities.”“Porous borders, corruption within the Department of Home Affairs [the government body responsible for immigration control], and irregular immigration processes have weakened public confidence in the state’s ability to manage migration effectively.”South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa outlined a five-point plan for tackling the crisis in a June 7 address to the nation. The plan focused on cracking down on law violations, securing borders, fighting corruption, reforming laws, and coordinating with other African nations.Cape Town’s Catholic Archbishop Sithembele Sipuka, the president of the ecumenical South African Council of Churches, met with Ramaphosa in Pretoria June 17.Speaking on behalf of a delegation of religious leaders, Sipuka said they had watched with dismay as individuals, mainly from other African countries, had been “hunted down, harassed, violated, their livelihoods destroyed, and their lives threatened unless they leave.”Addressing Ramaphosa, he went on: “Mr President, if tomorrow every African foreign national were to leave this country, our problems would still be with us. The lack of basic service delivery would persist. Unemployment would remain. The insecurity and the drugs would remain. Because the cause is not the foreigner. The cause is the elephant in the room. In isiXhosa we say ukufa kusembizeni — the problem is in the pot itself.”“That elephant is an education system that does not equip our young people to create work for themselves. It is the corruption that has hollowed out our institutions and collapsed the services on which communities depend. It is businesses that exploit foreign nationals for cheap labor to avoid paying fair wages — something you yourself noted in your address to the nation. To blame the stranger is to let these true culprits escape scrutiny.”Sipuka said later that the delegation had received assurances that law enforcement would be deployed to tackle violence ahead of the planned June 30 protests.
A “Bishop” of the Conciliar Sect Invokes the “Rule of Law” While Abandoning the Kingship of Christ
The Pillar Catholic portal reports that Bishop Thulani Victor Mbuyisa, C.M.M., chairman of the justice and peace commission for the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, issued a statement on June 24 appealing for calm ahead of a June 30 deadline set by protest groups demanding that undocumented migrants leave South Africa. Mbuyisa acknowledged the “real” underlying concerns of protesters—unemployment, crime, and pressures on informal trading—but urged them to refrain from violence against foreign nationals and to respect and uphold the “rule of law.” His statement came as part of a broader pattern of conciliar “church” leaders positioning themselves as moral arbiters in social conflicts, while entirely abandoning the supernatural mission of the true Church and reducing Catholic social teaching to a variant of secular humanitarianism.
The Utter Absence of Supernatural Faith: A Church Silent on Grace and Final Judgment
The most striking feature of Mbuyisa’s statement—and of the entire report—is its complete silence on supernatural realities. There is no mention of the state of souls, the necessity of baptism, the reality of final judgment, the existence of hell, or the salvific mission of the Catholic Church. The “Church” he invokes is not the Mystical Body of Christ established to save souls from eternal perdition, but a humanitarian NGO concerned with “social tension” and “fear.”
This silence is not accidental. It is the direct fruit of the post-conciliar revolution, which, as St. Pius X prophesied in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), reduced the Church to a mere philosophical society and stripped her of her supernatural character. The conciliar sect has systematically replaced the preaching of the Gospel with the promotion of “dialogue,” “tolerance,” and “peace”—concepts divorced from their supernatural foundation. As Pope Pius XI taught in Quas Primas (1925), “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” Mbuyisa’s appeal for “calm” and “rule of law” without any reference to the Kingship of Christ over nations is a practical denial of this fundamental Catholic truth.
“Rule of Law” Without Christ the King: A Modernist Heresy in Action
Mbuyisa’s call to “respect and uphold the rule of law” is particularly revealing. In Catholic doctrine, true law is an ordinance of right reason directed to the common good, promulgated by him who has care of the community, and ultimately derived from the Eternal Law of God (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, Q. 90). The “rule of law” invoked by a conciliar “bishop” in a post-Christian, secular state is not this. It is the “rule of law” of the abomination of desolation—a legal order that has explicitly rejected Christ the King and His Church’s authority.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, explicitly condemned the separation of civil law from divine authority: “When God and Jesus Christ—as we lamented—were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” By appealing to this godless “rule of law” as the final arbiter, Mbuyisa implicitly accepts and legitimizes the secular, anti-Christian order. He does not call for the conversion of South Africa to Catholicism as the one true religion, nor does he remind the state of its duty to profess and promote the Catholic faith. He treats the secular legal order as a neutral, legitimate framework—a position that is itself a heresy condemned by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) and by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), particularly proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
Scapegoating the Protesters, Not the System: A Refusal to Name the True Enemy
While Mbuyisa pays lip service to the “real” concerns of the protesters, he fundamentally misdiagnoses the crisis. He warns against “scapegoating” foreign nationals, but he refuses to identify the true scapegoating operation orchestrated by the globalist, modernist system. The real enemy of the South African people—and of all peoples—is not the migrant worker, but the modernist apostasy that has hollowed out the Church from within and the Masonic, globalist political order that promotes mass migration, cultural dissolution, and the eradication of national identities rooted in Catholic Christendom.
The protesters, however misguided their methods, are reacting to a real symptom: the destruction of their communities, livelihoods, and social fabric by forces beyond their immediate control. The conciliar “church,” instead of directing their righteous anger toward the true culprits—the architects of the secular, globalist order, the promoters of religious indifferentism, the modernist “clergy” who have betrayed the Faith—seeks to pacify them by condemning their natural instincts and channeling their frustration into acceptance of the status quo. This is the classic tactic of a paramasonic structure: maintain the crisis, then oppose the natural resistance to it, all while posing as the voice of “reason” and “peace.”
Archbishop Sipuka’s Pragmatic Naturalism: The Elephant in the Room Is Not Modernism
The report also highlights Cape Town’s “Catholic Archbishop” Sithembele Sipuka, who met with President Ramaphosa and offered a critique that, while more substantive than Mbuyisa’s, remains trapped within a purely naturalistic framework. Sipuka correctly identifies that the problems of unemployment, service delivery, and insecurity would persist even if all foreign nationals left. He points to the education system, corruption, and businesses exploiting cheap labor as the “elephant in the room.”
However, Sipuka’s analysis is fatally incomplete. He identifies the symptoms but refuses to name the disease. The corruption he decries is not an aberration within a sound system; it is the logical fruit of a political and ecclesiastical order that has abandoned God. The education system that fails to equip young people is a system that has rejected the supernatural purpose of human life. The businesses that exploit labor are operating within a globalist economic model promoted by the same forces that have engineered the conciliar revolution. To blame “corruption” and “governance failures” without identifying the modernist, secularist, and Masonic ideology that has produced them is to treat a terminal illness with aspirin.
Furthermore, Sipuka’s role as president of the ecumenical South African Council of Churches is itself a scandal. Ecumenism, as practiced by the conciliar sect, is a heresy condemned by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928), which forbids Catholics from participating in “promoting the union of Christians” on the false premise that all religions are equally valid paths to God. By leading an ecumenical delegation, Sipuka publicly manifests his adherence to the very religious indifferentism that the true Church has always condemned.
The Conciliar “Church” as a Tool of the Globalist Order
The entire episode reveals the true function of the post-conciliar structures. They are not a Church in any Catholic sense. They are a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, serving as the religious wing of the globalist, secularist, anti-Christian order. Their role is to:
1. Suppress legitimate resistance by condemning “violence” and “xenophobia” while ignoring the systemic violence of the globalist system.
2. Promote the “rule of law” of the secular, anti-Christian state as the highest moral authority, effectively denying the Kingship of Christ.
3. Reduce Catholic social teaching to a vague humanitarianism indistinguishable from secular NGO activism, stripped of all supernatural content and all reference to the Church’s unique salvific mission.
4. Maintain the crisis by offering purely naturalistic “solutions” (better governance, education reform, economic policy) that leave the root cause—modernist apostasy—untouched and unaddressed.
The “South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference” is not a body of Catholic bishops. It is a department of the Church of the New Advent, a conciliar sect that has systematically dismantled Catholic doctrine, worship, and governance. Its “pastoral statements” are not expressions of the Catholic Magisterium but political interventions in service of the globalist status quo. Cardinal Stephen Brislin, who signed the May 20 statement, is not a prince of the Church but a functionary of the antipapal regime, whose authority derives not from Christ but from the usurper in Rome.
The True Catholic Response: Repentance, Conversion, and the Social Kingship of Christ
The true Catholic response to the crisis in South Africa—and in all nations—is not “calm,” “dialogue,” or “rule of law.” It is repentance and conversion. The true Church has always taught that social peace is a byproduct of justice, and justice requires the recognition of Christ the King over all nations, families, and individuals. As Pius XI declared, “Then at last… so many wounds can be healed, then there will be hope that the law will regain its former authority, sweet peace will return again, swords and weapons will fall from hands, when all willingly accept the reign of Christ and obey Him, and every tongue will confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.”
The duty of a true bishop in South Africa would be to:
1. Preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ without compromise, calling all men—migrant and native alike—to conversion, baptism, and life in the Catholic Church, the only ark of salvation.
2. Condemn the modernist, secularist, and Masonic order that has engineered the social, economic, and spiritual crisis, naming its agents and exposing its lies.
3. Demand that the South African state recognize the Catholic Church as the one true religion, abolish all laws contrary to divine law, and order all things according to the principles of Christian justice and charity.
4. Teach the faithful that the social Kingship of Christ is not a metaphor but a binding obligation on every nation, and that all policies—including immigration—must be ordered toward the supernatural end of man: the salvation of souls and the glory of God.
Mbuyisa, Sipuka, and the entire conciliar apparatus in South Africa do none of this. They are false shepherds, wolves in sheep’s clothing, leading the faithful into the same naturalistic, secularist, anti-Christian abyss that has consumed the rest of the post-conciliar world. Their “appeal for calm” is not a call to peace but a call to submission to the abomination of desolation. The true Church, though driven underground by the conciliar apostasy, endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and reject the modernist revolution. To them alone belongs the promise: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God” (Matt. 5:9)—not because they compromise with error, but because they are reconciled to God through the unchanging Catholic Faith.
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South African bishop calls for calm ahead of anti-migrant deadline (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 24.06.2026