Worshippers from the Nazareth Baptist Church are to hold a series of mass services in a rare and endangered indigenous forest. Shembe church in row with environmentalists Home Page ...

Members of the Nazareth Baptist Church, also known as Shembe, knew their new leader would be anointed at a meeting held on the south coast, the Durban High Court heard on Wednesday.

Followers of the Shembe religion in southern Africa strive to wear leopard skins during church gatherings. Poachers increasingly kill leopards to profit from their use in traditional medicine and ...

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.

Former slay queen Nicole Nyaba is said to have turned over a new leaf and joined the famous Shembe church. South Africans' ...

Shembe was in his late 70s and headed one of four factions of the church. According to the church’s blog, he led the church since 1933. His branch of the church has over one million followers, most of ...

Vodacom South Africa has announced a partnership with the Shembe church to distribute the telecommunications company’s products and services to the church’s members. The “mutually beneficial ...

Members of the Nazareth Baptist ‘Shembe’ Church. The KwaZulu-Natal High Court has ruled that the Nazareth Baptist Church (Shembe) should vote for a new leader in the latest instalment of a ...

Landile Shembe told reporters that the church had 6.7 million members, of which about 2.4 million were Vodacom subscribers. National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete, who has strong ties to the ...

Followers of the Shembe religion in southern Africa strive to wear leopard skins during church gatherings. Poachers increasingly kill leopards to profit from their use in traditional medicine and ...

Vodacom South Africa has announced a partnership with the Shembe church to distribute the telecommunications company’s products and services to the church’s members. The “mutually beneficial ...

Shembe was in his late 70s and headed one of four factions of the church. According to the church’s blog, he led the church since 1933. His branch of the church has over one million followers, most of ...