The fallout caused by who should succeed the late leader of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church may have led to the formation of a fifth faction. “We will be in Umthwalume on Saturday where the ...

Barefoot and dressed in white, thousands of pilgrims gather on a hilltop overlooking Durban blowing on long metal "imbomu" tubes, forerunner of the vuvuzela. Every year, faithful from the Nazareth ...

The story begins more than a century ago, in 1910, when the prophet Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe founded the Nazareth Baptist Church, or iBandla lamaNazaretha. Today it is one of the largest African ...

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 ...

Durban - Police are monitoring the situation after two pilgrims were attacked during an apparent clash between rival factions of the Nazareth Baptist Church at its holy mountain in Inanda, ...

Clashes between rival factions of the Nazareth Baptist Church's are feared at its holy mountain in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, after two pilgrims were attacked there at the weekend. “The situation is tense ...

Controversy marred the funeral of the late Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church leader, Vimbeni Shembe yesterday when two new leaders of the five million-strong church were announced to hundreds of ...