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Isaiah Mloyiswa Mdliwamafa Shembe (c. 1865 [1] [2] – 2 May 1935), was a prophet and the founder of the Ibandla lamaNazaretha, South Africa, which was the largest African-initiated church in Africa during his lifetime. [3] Shembe started his religious career as an itinerant evangelist and faith healer in 1910.
Shembe congregation leaders. Female Shembe congregants. The Nazareth Baptist Church (Alternatively called "The Nazarite Church" "iBandla lamaNazaretha") is the second largest African initiated church based in South Africa, founded in 1910. [1] It reveres Shembe as a prophet sent by God to restore the teachings of Moses, the prophets, and Jesus ...
Nokutela Dube, wife of John L. Dube, founder of the Ohlange Institute; Malusi Gigaba, Minister of Home Affairs; ... Isaiah Shembe, Nazareth Baptist Church founder;
Shembe's Nazarite church was to become the largest Zionist congregation until eclipsed by the Zion Christian Church in the 1950s. Shembe's church was distinct from most other Zionist sects in that he insisted that he was a prophet sent directly from God to the Zulu nation. Most other Zionists were distinctly non-ethnic in outlook. [7]
The Story of Isaiah Shembe – History and Traditions Centered on EkuPhakameni and Mount Nhlangakazi: Volume One of the Sacred History and Traditions of the amaNazaretha, translated from the Zulu by Hans-Jürgen Becken, edited with G.C. Oosthuizen, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1996, pp. 258, ISBN 0773487735
Shembe may refer to: Isaiah Shembe; Nazareth Baptist Church; Shembe, Bururi, a village in Burundi; Shembe, Rutana, a village in Burundi; Lungelo Khumbulani Shibzin Jr ...
Isaiah Shembe, considered the Zulu Messiah, presented a form of Christianity (the Nazareth Baptist Church) which incorporated traditional customs. [22] Furthermore, the Zulu people also practice a ceremony called Ukweshwama. The killing of the bull is part of Ukweshwama, an annual ceremony that celebrates a new harvest.
John Langalibalele Dube (11 February 1871 – 11 February 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet.. John Langalibalele Dube, affectionately known as "Mafukuzela," alongside his wife Nokutela Dube, were born in the 1870s at an American-operated Christian mission station located in Inanda.