Shembe: a biography, by John L. Dube [translated into English from Zulu by M.B. Yengwa]. [1976?]
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Shembe, Isaiah, -1935
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Isaiah Shembe, the founder of the Nazarite Church, was born in the Free State, South Africa in c. 1867. His family were probably labour tenants on land near Harrismith. He appears to have attended services in a Wesleyan Church but later came under the influence of William Leshega of the African Baptist Church. He was baptised into this Church in 1906 and was ordained shortly afterwards. He rapidly built up a reputation as a preacher and healer and established his own church in Durban in 1910. Th...
Dube, John Langalibalele, 1871-1946
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Yengwa, M. B.
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