Also known as the Shembe Church after its founder Isaiah Shembe, the church has 6.5 million followers according to Lizwi Ncwane, a senior member and legal adviser to the organization.

Isaiah Shembe, Sibisi told the court, named both his sons as successors at a ceremony in the holy mountain of Nhlangakazi, years before his death in 1935.

Leopard skins have become a wardrobe essential for the 5 million members of South Africa's Shembe Church, a church founded in 1910 by Isaiah Shembe that melds Zulu and Christian elements.

Mthethwa tells the M&G that when Isaiah Shembe died in May 1935 his successor, son Julius Galilee Shembe, was only announced in July of that year.

In 1910 Isaiah Shembe founded what he called the Nazareth Baptist Church, a religion now better known just as Shembe. Some broadcasters also want the vuvuzela banned from the World Cup A loose ...

A R400 000 statue of Isaiah Shembe, founder of the Nazareth Baptist Church (the Shembe church) has been collecting dust in a municipal library service building because members of the church say it ...

JOHANNESBURG — Vimbeni Shembe, a leader of a major but divided South African church, died Monday. He was 77. President Jacob Zuma, who announced Shembe’s death, did not say what caused it.

Prophet Isaiah Shembe founded the church in 1910, which now has more than a million followers across the country. Ngubane said they are guided by the Bible, which gives them the rules of Nazareth.

The Ebuhleni faction of the Nazareth Baptist Church is in mourning following the death of its leader, Vimbeni Shembe, at his home in Ebuhleni village in Inanda yesterday.

Every year, faithful from the Nazareth Baptist Church make a pilgrimage to Ebuhleni Mission, where their church's founder Isaiah Shembe lived in the southeastern part of the country.

Meet Simphiwe Lizwi Shembe, a comedian turned social activist who has embarked on a journey to advocate the benefits of medical circumcising.. Simphiwe was born in north KZN in a small town called ...

A titanic court battle is looming within the Shembe church after one of its five factions was awarded the exclusive right to use the church's name, hymns, prayers and religious uniform. The ...