A stream of political parties are visiting one of the leaders of the Nazareth Baptist Church, Mduduzi Nyazilwezulu Shembe, before the national and provincial elections later this year. Founded in 1910 ...

The Constitutional Court has failed to come to the aid of Mduduzi Shembe in his final legal bid to take the reins of the Ebuhleni faction of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) church. The court ruled on ...

Founded over a century ago, the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church is one of South Africa's largest and most influential religious movements, with millions of members. The Church, established by Prophet ...

New political kid on the block, Afrika Unite Congress, says it wants to redefine the role spiritual and traditional leaders ...

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 ...

South African voters, particularly those with religious and/or traditional inclinations, have one more political party on the ballot to choose from at the 2024 general elections. This follows the ...

You might have seen the Nazareth Baptist Church or Shembe members assembling at their white painted stone temples along the coast every Saturday and have asked yourself what the Shembe church is all ...

The Nazareth Baptist Church, popularly known as the Shembe church, will announce details of leadership succession and the funeral of its spiritual leader Vela Shembe this week. “We are trying to ...

Durban - Claims that late Nazareth Church leader Vimbeni Shembe verbally nominated his successor were a fabrication, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court heard on Friday. This was the testimony of Zwelabantu ...

Durban - A trial involving two feuding factions of the Nazareth Church was delayed in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Monday. It was set down for ten days but could not begin on Monday because some ...

The International Day of Yoga promises to be a cornerstone event, promoting peace and wellbeing while celebrating African unity through the spiritual practice of yoga.

Shembe Nazareth Baptist Church Leaders were moved when meeting a survivor of the October 7 Massacre and promised the survivor that they would support her and share her story. Shembe Nazareth Baptist ...