There was joyous singing and dancing at the high court in Pietermaritzburg following the declaration that Vela Shembe’s Thembizinhle faction of the Nazareth Baptist Church was the rightful leader of ...

Mduduzi Shembe’s supporters outside the Durban high court during the prolonged legal battle for control of the Shembe church. Picture: Gallo Images/ The Times/Thuli Dlamini The Constitutional Court ...

Johannesburg - Battles over the legitimate leader of the Ebuhleni Congregation of the Nazareth Baptist Church, better known as Shembe Church, will continue to rage in the foreseeable future. This ...

The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg has ruled that the late Vela Shembe is the legitimate leader of the Shembe Church. Deputy Judge President Isaac Madondo handed down his judgment before ...

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 ...

Since leader Vimbeni Shembe's death in March 2011, the church has been divided over who should be at its helm. Shembe Church Nhlalisuthi at Khenana holy mountain in Indwede in Kwa-Zulu Natal, 9 ...

The Durban High Court yesterday interdicted Mduduzi Shembe, son of the former leader of the eBuhleni faction of the religious group known as the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) church, from calling himself ...

The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment in a case concerning the leadership succession in the Shembe Church. The applicants wanted leave to appeal the whole judgment and order of the Supreme ...

The Shembe leadership battle began in April with the death of Vimbeni Shembe, the leader of the largest faction of the church Senior members of the Nazareth Church, popularly known as the Shembe ...

Vodacom and the Shembe church have entered into a "mutually beneficial" agreement that will see the church distribute the company's products and services, they announced on Wednesday. Neither the ...

The party says comparing Mduduzi Shembe to fugitive pastor Shepherd Bushiri is wrong because Shembe has not broken any laws. MKP says Bushiri fled from justice while Shembe remains in the country and ...