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…
The church’s leader gained support for pursuing it’s founder’s ideals
The Nazareth Baptist Church, popularly known as the Shembe church, will announce details of leadership succession after Vela Shembe’s sudden death
The court has ruled on the Nazarene church succession battle, yet bitter divisions remain.
Present-day Nazarites have relaxed strictures around hair but Rastas resolutely hold on to their dreads.
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.
With five factions and counting, secular judgments have failed to heal the divisions that have fragmented the Nazareth Baptist Church.
