The fallout caused by who should succeed the late leader of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church may have led to the formation of a fifth faction. “We will be in Umthwalume on Saturday where the ...

IN a move to unite the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church and the Shembe family, two leaders who currently head their own factions of the church will be holding a press conference today, which is ...

Controversy marred the funeral of the late Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church leader, Vimbeni Shembe yesterday when two new leaders of the five million-strong church were announced to hundreds of ...

South African pilgrims meet on a hilltop overlooking Durban blowing on long metal "imbomu" tubes, forerunner of the vuvuzela. Every year, faithful from the Nazareth Baptist Church make a pilgrimage to ...

Reviewed Work: Isaiah Shembe’s Prophetic Uhlanga: The Worldview of the Nazareth Baptist Church in Colonial South Africa by Joel E. Tishken, Peter Lang The University of Pennsylvania Press exists to ...