Paul Waugh Exposes Harassment, Stalking, Slandering & Racial Segregation by Peet, Elbé and Niki van Heerden of Nieu-Bethesda to the South African Police.
From left to right: Niki van Heerdan, Peet van Heerdan, Elbé van Heerdan
In This Exposé We Will Present…
- How Lighthouse Global Founder Paul Waugh is being attacked for giving food to starving local black and coloured (an official ethnic term and group in South Africa) children and their parents Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa.
- These attacks come from local white residents trying to maintain a seeming ‘last outpost of apartheid’.
- A report detailing the harassment has been filed with Colonel Mpanza and Colonel Abrahams of the Graaff-Reinet Police against the local van Heerden family.
- Mr Waugh and Lighthouse Global are exposing an chronic trend of being viciously attacked by abusers for helping vulnerable victims of abuse in many forms.
- Lighthouse Global is building a global groundswell of supporters and inviting the world’s media to visit Nieu-Bethesda to expose these crimes.
Attacked for Standing Up to White Oppressors
in Nieu-Bethesda: The Last Outpost of Apartheid
“Don’t feed the children”.
This is a sign some local guesthouses in Nieu-Bethesda. A warning to visitors to not feed the non-white children from a neighbouring town.
Less than two weeks from arriving in Nieu-Bethesda, this is one of many instances of horrifying racism and child abuse Paul Waugh witnessed. He had never seen such oppression in even the apartheid-era Durban of his childhood. In response to this travesty, Mr Waugh has sought to find ways to feed and educate the children and parents of the local non-white community.
“I’ve never had someone tell me not to feed a starving person in my whole life. Not in the most racist Africa, not in the old South Africa, not in the most racist towns, I never had someone tell me don’t feed that starving child, don’t feed that starving family.” – Paul Waugh
Paul Waugh has found himself being attacked once again for his attempts to help the vulnerable and those being oppressed by the perpetrators of abuse.
Packing his belongings into a car by torchlight, he along with his two dogs and fellow Lighthouse Director, Chris Nash, left urgently in the middle of the night to avoid waiting any longer and facing potentially dire or even tragic consequences to them remaining. Notice had come that tensions were intensifying not just amongst the white supremacist residents, but also some of the non-white townspeople too, who were afraid for the impact Mr Waugh’s stand would have on their employment by white residents.
Below is the police report from Paul Waugh reporting three members of the van Heerden family for harassment that he has sent to Colonel Mpanza and Colonel Abrahams of the South African Police Service, at nearby Graaff-Reinet.
Police Report of Harassment, Stalking, Slander and Defamation in Nieu-Bethesda by Peet, Elbe and Niki van Heerden
INTRODUCTION
I am reporting Elbé, Niki and Peet van Heerden of Nieu-Bethesda for harassment through persistent systematic stalking of myself and my staff as well as for slander and defamation. They have been spreading malicious falsehoods in order to try and stop me from feeding the local community in Nieu-Bethesda who are in desperate need.
Below you will find details of what has happened. Please contact me where you require any further information.
I would like to make it known here that I will be taking certain action in relation to this situation, including reporting this to yourselves the South African police service of Graaf-Reinet.
1. I am inviting the National and international media to cover this horrific situation.
2. My company Lighthouse Global will be putting together the decades of atrocities, which go well beyond what I am writing here, on a website specifically dedicated to the Atrocities of Nieu-Bethesda.
3. I will also be starting a feeding program and school supply program for the Nieu-Bethesda community which will include 3 meals a day and anything they need for educational purposes.
4. I will also be sending this directly to Cyril Ramaphosa who is personally known to me from the days of NUM.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
– I arrived 9th January 2024 to *** ********** ***** (***** ******* *****), ******** Street, Nieu-Bethesda in order to take occupancy for a year in order to write a book on business leadership.
– When myself and Chris Nash arrived we met several of the town members. Three of them were from the van Heerden family. Peet the father, and two of his daughters, Elbé and Niki.
– In the first week and a half of being here I noticed extreme poverty in the local township Pienaarsig. I heard that there were notices in some of the Nieu-Bethesda guest houses requesting that people do not feed the children which I was very surprised by to say the least!
– Seeing the poverty around me I couldn’t not reach out and give some of the locals some of the basics like bread, sanitation, some protein in the form of chicken and I spent a substantial amount of money doing so.
– It was after me having helped several people with something to eat that Elbé van Heerden asked me politely not to feed the locals because I do not know how it works here. She told me I am not from here and I am causing a problem for the locals.
– These requests from Elbé became more urgent, intense and aggressive. She started manically shouting, “Shut the fuck up! Shut the fuck up!” to the point where I had to ask her to leave my home.
– I have now done some research online in relation to Nieu-Bethesda and I have found numerous shocking pieces by global media outlets such as the Guardian about the segregation and the strong remnant of apartheid South Africa that still exists here. To my disgust and utter amazement my experience shows that this still exists. Even growing up here in apartheid South Africa I did not experience anything as bad as this. Here is one example The Guardian – Battles of apartheid still rage
– I have also noticed that there is no legislative body, no local counsel or mayor, just these families dominating these people… Apparently Peet van Heerden is the unofficial Mayor, or so goes the boast.
– This is not the first time I have been harassed, bullied and threatened for helping people in the past. Earlier in my life when I helped prostitutes get out of prostitution I was attacked by their pimps in Durban.
– When I have helped women who have been beaten up by the husbands/boyfriends I would be attacked by the male partner and his friends.
– I recently helped certain people through a fraternity called Lighthouse International Group which mentors, coaches and counsels people to get out of abusive families, some of them sexually abusive families. It is here that I was initially brutally attacked anonymously online through Reddit and other platforms.
– Through putting these people into support groups to help each other I was accused of being a cult leader by these people and the press who thought it was a good sensationalised story. I have had issues with the BBC and tabloid newspapers in relation to this which I am now challenging publicly and winning through David vs Goliath www.davidvsgoliath.global
– After many threats from Elbé, Niki and Peet they asked me for my surname. After looking online (I had already told them about all this harassment from the press and others in detail) they, when realising that I was continuing to feed these starving children and their parents, decided against their better judgement to demonise me to the entire village by spreading slanderous and defamatory falsehoods.
– They decided to slander me and defame me in the form of calling me a fugitive trying to escape the law and so coming to Nieu-Bethesda in order to hide. If I was a fugitive trying to hide I would never have come to a small town, made myself known by my full name to many of those living here while also sharing with them in depth the maliciously false accusations that have been made against me by the global media and the parents who who have abused their, now adult, children.
I encourage you to investigate through the South African Police Service, Interpol, Scotland Yard and any other body globally as to just how false these accusations are. In fact it is the people who have attacked me online who are being arrested by the police. There have been over 30 cases to date. I have not had not even one policeman approach me anywhere globally about any of these accusations or even one lawyer’s letter in relation to any of it. The UK police were so dismissive of these maliciously false accusations against me that they didn’t even question me at all in relation to any of it.
– I wish to lay a charge against all three of these parties (Elbé van Heerden, Niki van Heerden, Peet van Heerden) so that justice may be done and that I may continue my good work in Nieu-Bethesda of not only feeding these people but helping them with their education and job creation through my immense contacts throughout the world.
– One disturbing sight that I witnessed was a group of young girls selling small items/trinkets to visitors here. These girls were aggressively kicked off the street, citing that they had no right to sell their wares in Nieu-Bethesda. They were starving and were trying to sell a few items to feed them and their family.
– I also found it extremely concerning that wherever I went in Nieu-Bethesda to help the poor that Elbé would know within minutes exactly what I had done, where I had been, who I had spoken to and what I had spent. She knew my whereabouts, my location at every time and did not hesitate to let me know that. This stalking must be stopped.
– On Tuesday 23rd January 2024, ***** *** ******** who works in ** ****** was stalked and targeted by Elbé while shopping in Pick n Pay in Graaff-Reinet and was told in no uncertain terms that he should quit his employment with me when he has no other meaningful source of income. He felt extremely threatened and was scared by her harassing him in this way and he felt he had to lie saying he didn’t work for me when he indeed does.
– On the following morning ****** (who is connected with Elbé and works in *** ***** ******) approached my domestic manager ***** ******* and started enquiring whether she worked for me and whether she intended to continue.
– That these falsehoods have been spread by Elbé, Niki and Peet has been reported to us by several parties in cafés, shops and locations around Nieu-Bethesda who were very concerned about my good work with the extremely vulnerable people of Nieu-Bethesda being compromised as well as my personal safety and future in Nieu-Bethesda.
I would also like to say that there will be no protests, peaceful or otherwise. The above will be more than sufficient.
I thank you for your due consideration of this very disturbing case and I thank you for your service in advance.
Paul Stephen Waugh
Peet van Heerden – Previously Found With Unlicensed Ammunition For Assault Rifles
As you can see, Peet van Heerden was not only involved in trying to harass and intimidate Paul Waugh, but he has a history of possessing unlicensed ammunition in his home. Why would Mr van Heerden need such a collection of bullets for R1 and R4 assault rifles? We do not know what he has been involved with in the past, but this is highly unusual for a resident of a small town.
“I do not believe people starve children in a time like this, a time of media, a time of the so-called new South Africa” – Paul Waugh
We are Christians at Lighthouse and we know to expect persecution for righteousness’ sake. However, we had no idea that persecution and hatred would come when we tried to help vulnerable children and adults!
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” – James 1:27
What Paul is experiencing first hand in Nieu Bethesda is not an isolated incident. In the UK, USA and parts of Africa we are seeing every day how much child abuse, child trafficking and child exploitation is being exposed yet very little done to hold the culprits accountable.
Nothing speaks like the power of the collective. Alone we are weak but united we are strong.
Register your details below to be part of the Global groundswell uniting millions of people to use our skills, resources, time and care to hold this tyranny accountable, starting in Nieu Bethesda.
Share this post with one person you believe cares about the safety of our children. We need as many good caring people to hear about this. We are not looking for handouts but rather the time and care of individuals.
We are also inviting the world’s media to visit Nieu-Bethesda and witness for themselves the atrocities that are happening, and to support the creation of local soup kitchens, school supply programmes and more. We are ensuring this story gets out to the world and that the atrocious and despicable truth of the events here is known worldwide.
It’s shocking in this day and age that racism like this still exists and especially against children. While apartheid may have legally ended many years ago it’s not psychologically ended and this happens here and in many places in the world. God bless those standing for justice.
Paul is such a good person, he has helped me many times without me asking for it. No one deserves this type of treatment especially when he does everything from his heart. All my love to you, Paul. Thank you for everything ♥️
What have we become as a human race and family.
Its beyond words and expression to think it’s ok or acceptable.The hearts are sealed the mind really messed up.I pray dear God to let this break now,the innocent and vulnerable always suffer the most. Disgusting and sickening,keep fighting and keep acting Paul and Chris.Thanks to God you exist.Shame on you people who attack these good guys and to decide who can eat and who can suffer!!!!
The last 14+ years of my time at Lighthouse Global has taught me that bullies and tyrants will continue to behave in oppressive ways until they are stood up to. I was never taught or shown how to do this until I started to learn from Paul Waugh’s mentorship. In the name of being ‘a good person’, I’ve wanted to please everyone and not upset anyone. I would run away from potential conflict rather than be prepared to stand up to injustice.
The example of Nieu-Bethseda shows that oppression can last for decades if it’s not challenged. The question then becomes… who are the people prepared to risk their lives and reputations to ensure that the vulnerable are protected? Tragically there are very few, but fortunately such people like Paul Waugh do exist to not only shine light on such darkness, but seek in bringing together the people and resources required to develop sustainable solutions. Building the groundswell through David vs Goliath is now even more meaningful (see http://www.davidvsgoliath.global). We’re not looking for sympathy or handouts, we’re looking for the right-hearted people to come together to build the value needed to regenerate the people and community of Nieu-Bethesda.
On 5th April 2023, Lucy Mangan wrote an article in the Guardian about us at Lighthouse Global following the BBC documythry “A Very British Cult”. Ms Mangan described the BBC’s blatantly biased broadcast as “an unrelenting investigation into the worst of humanity”.
Just using the example of Nieu-Bethesda, Ms Mangan is basically saying that white supremacists are better examples of humanity than us at Lighthouse Global. Additionally she is saying that Paul Waugh’s efforts to stand up to racism makes him a terrible human being. The fact that such nonsense can be published in the mainstream media shows the desperate need for David vs Goliath and other forums that hold the legacy media accountable for their lies and deception.
In this situation I pray for repentance, reform and regeneration. 🙏
Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. – Proverbs 31:9
Wow, it is incredibly shocking that racism still exists at such huge lengths and proportions in such countries that are known for overcoming it! Yet still it rears its ugly head. God bless you Paul Waugh for standing for them, for truth, and for all of us who are doing the same. Thank you for exposing this heinous crime to our most vulnerable in society. God bless you and us all x x
I remember learning about apartheid in school and I thought it was something from the past that doesn’t exist anymore. So, reading about the situation in Nieu-Bethesda is really shocking and disturbing. To have signs in the village saying “Don’t feed the children” says a lot about the racism of the white community in that village. It makes me feel sick thinking about the children and their families having to suffer this level of abuse on a day-to-day basis. It’s so important to bring people together who stand up for what is right, even if it means risking their own safety. We need a groundswell of people who stop these kinds of atrocities. God bless our children, they deserve a lot better 🙏🏻
Even though I have known about this before reading this post, reading it in black and white gives me chills and makes me feel deeply disturbed. There is a cold, psychopathic, inhuman evil about what Paul has encountered here in Nieu-Bethesda. The fact that I knew about it before doesn’t make it less digestible. The inhuman way of treating children, the tolerance and maintenance of it, the reactions from this Van Heerden family are deeply disturbing.
I’ve known Paul near 15 years and I’ve seen first hand time and time again this chronic pattern of the consequences of trying to help vulnerable people. That whenever he’s actually gone far, far out of his way to help, he’s been attacked, blocked and threatened. At the very least he’s been judged because just by the act of helping he exposes the evil lurking under the surface of so-called law-abiding citizens. I feel incredible sheltered and blind to the extent of the evil in this world. I’m grateful to be seeing it and to be able to do something about it, as you say we don’t need nor want handouts, but what we do need is human will and human care, to actually protect these children and feed them in every sense to not be left in the hands of abusive so-called adults. God help us and have mercy on us.
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela
What kind of world is this that would see impoverished children and their families without food because it is not “the way things are done?!” The white supremacists in Nieu-Bethesda have managed to maintain a racial and cultural divide in this small village where they know the impoverished are vulnerable and without resources. Typical tyrants and bullies! These types of people are the ones who turn up to church playing good citizens! Well, their real characters are being exposed..globally, just as we are exposing the legacy media, the BBC and their seemingly good intentions to expose the worst kind of humanity through their smear campaign against Lighthouse Global; they have only succeeded in revealing that this move was to distract away from their vile history as liars and abuse-enablers. Like the corrupt legacy media and the BBC, the white supremacists in this village, have revealed exactly who they are, not who they think or say they are, through their psychopathic actions in harassing, stalking and attempts to intimidate Paul Waugh, Chris Nash and employees and people associated with them in the village. They thought they would get away with pushing more people out of their village but they could not be more mistaken!
God help these little children and I pray they do not grow up thinking that every adult in the world is like these fiends, Paul Waugh and Chris Nash have proved that is not the case.
It is an absolute outrage to learn that an apparently “Christian” white public refuse entry of their black and coloured counterparts into the all-but-empty local church. God help them, and God bless Paul for rebuking these people and their decidedly unChristian behaviour.
But worst of all is the blatant rejection of the sanctity of children’s and basic human rights, to behold signs in local guest houses bearing the warning: “DO NOT FEED THE CHILDREN”?!
The reality that towns like Nieu-Bethesda still exist, where people are treated like vermin, is a human travesty. So is the emerging trend of evil hearts projecting their treachery onto godly men who act with true Christian generosity 🙏🏼
Shocking!!! To treat human beings in a way they aren’t human. How can you find yourself telling another person not to feed starving people? We’re talking evil here and to allow this is a tragedy of the highest order. This must be stopped! If the world doesn’t do anything about this, then each and every one of us who lives on this earth should feel ashamed, deeply ashamed. Godspeed Paul and Lighthouse.
What is happening in Nieu Bethesda is absolutely disgusting. Treating a child like an animal, ‘Do not feed the children’ this is something out of the dark ages.
Paul Waugh knows very well what it is like to be hatefully and aggressively attacked, and is a man who will not back down by threats. We need to build a groundswell of Christian brothers and sisters who want to stand up to tyranny and persecution and stand up with Christ and fight for what is right and true. Men, women and children stand OUTSIDE churches with their Bibles to pray because they are NOT allowed in church. This is God’s house and all are welcome, but to be denied…This racist persecution has got to stop! God bless all those starving children and their families in Nieu Bethesda 🙏
I’m speechless to read this and to see what is going on here. I live in such a bubble that stories like this feel like the distant past, like a history book not something that is literally happening right now.
For all the media furore over “Black Lives Matter”, what about the racism that is still happening right now in South Africa? Why hasn’t this made headlines? As the other articles from the Guardian show, this apartheid in Nieu Bethesda has been going for over 20 years! Why has no one taken notice, brought this to the global stage and actually fed the people here? “Do not feed the children”, like they’re animals?! I feel absolutely sick.
That there are people who would go to such lengths to prevent children who are starving, of any race or creed, from getting some sustenance and food at the hands of someone’s heartfelt benevolence is a chilling example of the level of evil that is real and exists in this world. What is happening here and anywhere that such things are happening, needs to be exposed and held up for the world to see and to condemn, whilst calling the perpetrators to justice and repentance. I pray that God will bring all these terrible things to good ends, for His Glory, by spreading this exposé far and wide. It’s a shock to hear and read the fact that what is happening now and the pathology of white supremacism in Nieu-Bethesda is in many ways worse than in the apartheid era itself. Thank God for Paul confronting this and challenging these people, even putting himself in danger and potentially bringing harm or possibly worse on himself in the course of that.
This is why the Groundswell that’s being called for here is so essential and something we must all get behind with Paul. We need to bring that level of attention, focus and resources from around the world on situations like this in order to create and bring about the necessary solutions and alleviate such unnecessary suffering. This is far bigger than any one person or even groups of people. It needs something huge and revolutionary. Our brothers and sisters in Christ and those with enough conscience and compassion in their hearts who want to be part of that solution can be that if we unite. #groundswell
I’ve been researching the reality of racism in Nieu Bethesda and it’s shocking. So many academic papers back up exactly what Paul Waugh has experienced. While some black people appear to be looked after by white employees this is to keep them in their place. There is little human care which is why there are signs instructing people not to help fellow man! There is so much poverty and malnutrition here in 2024, shameful!!
It is an absolute human disgrace that this is the reality of the world that we live in. That there are towns where there are such signs saying don’t ‘feed the children’ up in windows… my goodness Godspeed the Kingdom!!
I am rather speechless that this kind of human disgrace is happening when only a few months ago agendas such as ‘Black Lives Matter’ were happening… Despite the corruption with that, clearly, the Van Heerdens and Nieu Bethesda didn’t jump on that bandwagon.
It is because of these atrocities that a Groundswell of good-hearted people is desperately needed to come together and where possible to alleviate suffering. It will happen and those poor children will have everything that a human being ought to be receiving regardless of skin color.
I am actually speechless.
Just makes me so ruthlessly angry that this kind of stuff is still going on and so prevalent.
It really does seem the world is going down hill
It breaks my heart that this horrendous abuse is still occurring to this day! These heartless people clearly belong to and represent the kingdom of darkness. They walk this earth as the sons and the daughters of Satan! I pray that enough light shine on their atrocities, forcing to cease! I pray they repent and change their wicked ways…before it is too late!
Lord God, I thank You for all of the soldiers fighting for Your beloved children in the Army of Christ. “And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force.” -Matthew 11:12
Thank you God for Your sons and for Your daughters who eagerly do Your will and Your work each day. Thank you God for Your relentless servants!! Help them Lord to continue to push forward, advancing the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth, inspiring the nations through their valiant acts in Your name!
Amen! God be with you Sheilah
What a cruel and controlling family. It’s interesting that of all the small towns in SA that Paul could have gone to he was attracted to this place, where it takes someone of his character to make a difference
Since when did people stop having the goodness in their soul to help others? Thankfully, people like Paul still have it. There’s bound to be more of these little villages scattered around in SA. Tip of the iceberg. This village is still holding beliefs from 1948. Disgusting.