Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was told by leaders of the Shembe Nazareth Baptist Church to stop beating about the bush and openly contest the presidency of the ANC. Ramaphosa was in Empangeni, on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast, yesterday at the invitation of Prophet “Unyazilwezulu” Shembe. He joined thousands of Shembe in a three-hour church service to celebrate the church‘s founding leader, Prophet Isaiah Shembe.

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