Nazareth Baptist Church (Shembe) have temples where people gather to worship and pray. Their worship day is on Saturday they call it Sabbath. It is also a place where anyone with a problem can come to deliver it to God in order to be solved. Nazareth temples are built on the mountains, because the King Mvimbeni … Read more
Mzinyathi Falls is a beautiful place situated at Ebuhleni, Inanda. The waterfall of Mzinyathi is used by Baptist Nazareth Church (Shembe) for their baptism purposes. The waterfall is surrounded by a lot of indigenous trees which date back 100 years, the Fall is also home to a small Rastafarian community living in a cave. Mzinyathi Falls … Read more
Inkonzo yamaNazaretha iyinkonzo ebheke kakhulu emasikweni esintu kanye nasemilandweni yezikhathi zenkosi uShaka. Lenkonzo ixube izinhlanga ezahlukahlukene okungamaZulu, amaXhosa, abeSuthu kanye nabanye kodwa uma sebehlangene enkonzweni angeke ubone ukuthi bahlukene ngokwamasiko abo. Enkonzweni yamaNazaretha kunemigidi emihle eyenziwayo ikakhulukazi uma kunezingqungquthela ezinkulu eziba njalo ngenyanga. Umgidi wamaNazaretha uhambisana nemvunulo yakhona. Labo abasuke beya emgidini bayahloba ngemvunulo yabo … Read more
Twice a year members of the ever-growing Shembe church congregate in Ebuhhleni for a month-long meeting to give thanks to the prophet Isaiah Shembe. The area is considered a holy land, a place of purity and blessings, and Shembe followers come from all over South Africa to climb the mountain at Ebuhhleni. It is a … Read more
Being a Christian holiday, Easter, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion at Calvary, isn’t recognised by a lot of South Africans, but it is a time of the year when people get to take a few well deserved days off from work, with many people driving to see family and friends … Read more
The image of a proud Zulu man wearing an animal skin is something that most South Africans are quite used to and wouldn’t really think twice about, but maybe it’s time that we did. The congregation of the Nazareth Baptist Church, commonly known as Shembes, use leopard skins in their ceremonies, which might have been … Read more