Shembe Nazareth Church
latest news & developments
Ace Magashule turns to the clergy for support ahead of his asbestos trial
The former secretary general was cast out of the ruling party in May last year after he refused to step aside, as per the ANC’s rules over corruption, fraud and money laundering…
Imisebe’s Shembe legacy unsure
The church’s leader gained support for pursuing it’s founder’s ideals
Shembe church succession, funeral details being finalised
The Nazareth Baptist Church, popularly known as the Shembe church, will announce details of leadership succession after Vela Shembe’s sudden death
Why Vela Shembe won’t be king
The court has ruled on the Nazarene church succession battle, yet bitter divisions remain.
Holy hair: The long and short of it
Present-day Nazarites have relaxed strictures around hair but Rastas resolutely hold on to their dreads.
Shembe church opts for fake skins to save leopards
Members of an indigenous Zulu church called Shembe have agreed to wear fake leopard skins, in a bid to preserve South Africa’s leopard population.
Shembe’s spiritual legacy lost in the battle for control
With five factions and counting, secular judgments have failed to heal the divisions that have fragmented the Nazareth Baptist Church.