Travelling to Klip River for baptism

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Title: Travelling to Klip River for baptism
Creator: Marinovich, Greg
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Members of the Gauteng branch of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe, travel from the church headquarters at Zuurbekom to the Klip River for baptism. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture.
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Date: 1998
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Format: Image, Documentary photography, Image/jpeg, Black and white photograph ; Photograph, Image/jpeg
Identifier: islandora:7411
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Rights: Copyright held by the photographer, Greg Marinovich. Please contact the Special Collections at the University of Cape Town Libraries for further information about using and/or publishing this photograph. http://www.specialcollections.uct.ac.za/photographs-and-images