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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.