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- Isaiah_Shembe abstract "Isaiah Mloyiswa Mdliwamafa Shembe (1865– 2 May 1935), was the founder of the Nazareth Baptist Church.He was born at Ntabamhlophe (Estcourt district) in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle) where his forefathers settled, when they escaped from the regiments of the Zulu King Shaka. Later, the family moved further on to Ntabazwe (Harrismith district) in the Sotho region of the Orange Free State, higher up in the Drakensberg mountains.1.2 The Shembe family, however, was of pure Zulu breed and originated from Zululand KwaCeza. The father of the Prophet Shembe was Mayekisa, the son of Nhliziyo, the son of Mzazela, the son of Sokhabuzela, the son of Nyathikazi. They were from the Ntungwa tribe with the praise-name Nhlanzi (fish) from Donsa. The mother of the prophet was Sitheya, the daughter of Malindi Hadebe, and was born at Mtimkulu.Shembe's family had left Zulu territory for the Orange Free State in the 1870s, and ended up as tenants on an Afrikaner farm near Harrismith. The young Shembe appears to have labored for this Boer family, and spent considerable time working with the farm's horses. By the time of the South African War, Shembe was a young man and seems to have been married. However, the war disrupted his situation, and after the war he spent some time on the Rand as a migrant During this time, he seems to have attended the African Native Baptist Church, led by William Leshega.After returning to Harrismith, Shembe was eventually baptized by Leshega, who visited him in 1906. In the following years he worked as an itinerant evangelist, and was given a preacher's certificate by Leshega in 1908. It would appear that Shembe then led a congregation for Leshega in Witzieshoek until 1910, when Leshega affiliated with John G Lake's Apostolic Faith Mission.Shembe served as a member of the White-led Apostolic Faith Mission for a year. During this time he seems to have taken John G Lake on two evangelizing tours of the area, one of which went as far as Basutoland. On these trips he listened to Lake's preaching and saw him perform a number of faith healings.Having imbibed the rhetoric and faith healing prowess of Lake, Shembe was inspired to strike out on his own, and he left for Natal in March 1911. Messengers preceded his arrival into various parts of Natal, proclaiming that "A Man of Heaven" had been sent by God to preach to the Zulu people. Shembe typically followed these messengers by a day or two, following which he would preach and perform faith healings similar to those typically performed by John G Lake. He also crafted a message of his calling as a prophet that closely mirrored that of Lake himself.By all accounts, Shembe had an electric effect and was able to build congregations in a number of areas. In 1916 he established a holy city at ekuPhakameni and a yearly pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain of Nhlangakazi. In addition to his preaching and healing, he was known for composing Zulu hymns and sacred dances, for creating sacred costumes that combined Zulu and European clothing styles, for developing a new liturgical calendar (that omitted Christmas), and for dietary laws that included a restriction against eating chicken, pork and other unclean foods as found in the old testament of the bible.Shembe's legacy has created some controversy. In a 1967 book, G.C. Oosthuizen argued that the movement was "a new religion that sees Isaiah Shembe as 'the manifestation of God.'" Oosthuizen was attacked by Bengt Sundkler and Absolom Vilakazi as being too Westernized to understand Zulu culture, and claimed that the movement remained Christian. However, Oosthuizen's view has been embraced by two of Shembe's successors, his younger son Amos Shembe and his grandson Londa Shembe, who (although they fought with each other over who was the legitimate successor and eventually formed two separate branches of the church), both of whom believe that Shembe did indeed create something new.A sculpture of Shembe was created from Carara marble by the US artist David Lambert and placed at the headquarters of a splinter group of the church at Matabetulu in 1983.".
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- Isaiah_Shembe comment "Isaiah Mloyiswa Mdliwamafa Shembe (1865– 2 May 1935), was the founder of the Nazareth Baptist Church.He was born at Ntabamhlophe (Estcourt district) in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle) where his forefathers settled, when they escaped from the regiments of the Zulu King Shaka.".
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