All Nations Christian Church Official, Aug 16, 2022
All Nations Christian Church in Zion Headquarters
Ezulwini/Lobamba Eswatini (under Archbishop B.R Lukhele) singing Sizobizwa
Masinyane led by Evangelist Scelimpilo Zwane.
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All Nations to the World
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams provides brief information about Zion (Christian denominations) in South Africa.
This post also showcases two YouTube videos of South African Zionist churches singing religious songs and dancing and two videos of South African secondary school morning assembly students singing religious songs and dancing.
The Addendum to this post showcases two videos of the toyi toyi protest dance/march. I included those videos in this post because the dissertation that is excerpted in a closelyrelated pancocojams post indicates that youth have incorporated toyi toyi dance movements into their Zionist church dancing.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/03/dance-in-south-africas-zionist.html for a closely related pancocojams post about dancing, singing, and worshipping in South Africa's Zionist churches. That post presents excerpts from an April 1997 dissertation by Sibusiso Emmanuel Pewa. hat dissertation is entitled "Song, Dance And Worship In The Zionist Christian Churches: An Ethnomusicological Study Of African Music and Religion". That dissertation was submitted to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zululand in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters Of Music.
The complete text of that dissertation is available online, and pancocojams visitors are encouraged to read it in its entirety. However, that post focuses on excerpts of that dissertation that provide information about dance in South Africa's Zionist churches.
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, and educational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos. Thanks also to the producers and publishes of these videos on YouTube and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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BRIEF INFORMATION ABOUT THE ZION CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Excerpt #1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Zionism
African
Zionism, (also "amaZioni" from Zulu "people of Zion") is a
religious movement with 15–18 million members throughout Southern Africa,
making it the largest religious movement in the region. It is a combination of
Christianity and African traditional religion. Zionism is the predominant
religion of Eswatini and forty percent of Swazis consider themselves Zionist.
It is also common among Zulus in South Africa. The amaZioni are found in South
Africa, Eswatini, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia.[1] A
large organization within this movement is the Zion Christian Church."...
History
The Zionist churches of southern Africa were founded by
Petrus Louis Le Roux, an Afrikaner faith healer.[2] He was a former member of
the Dutch Reformed Church who joined John Alexander Dowie's Christian Catholic
Church based in Zion, Illinois. In 1903 Dowie sent a Daniel Bryant to South
Africa to work alongside Le Roux. In 1908 Daniel Nkonyane became the leader of
the church. By the 1920s the church in Africa was entirely separated from its
American version. In the mid-1980s the church in Zion, Illinois (now called
Christ Community Church) began reestablishing a connection with the Zion
movement in Southern Africa. The church works through an agency called Zion
Evangelical Ministries of Africa or ZEMA. In South Africa, churches were
established at Wakkerstroom and Charlestown on the Transvaal-Natal border."...
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Excerpt #2
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zionist-church
"Zionist church, any of several prophet-healing groups in
southern Africa; they correspond to the independent churches known as Aladura
(q.v.) in Nigeria, “spiritual” in Ghana, and “prophet-healing churches” in most
other parts of Africa.
The use of the term Zion derives from the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, founded in Chicago in 1896 and having missionaries in South Africa by 1904. That church emphasized divine healing, baptism by threefold immersion, and the imminent Second Coming of Christ. Its African members encountered U.S. missionaries of the Apostolic Faith pentecostal church in 1908 and learned that the Zion Church lacked the second Baptism of the Spirit (recognition of extra powers or character); they therefore founded their own pentecostal Zion Apostolic Church. The vast range of independent churches that stem from the original Zion Apostolic Church use in their names the words Zion (or Jerusalem), Apostolic, Pentecostal, Faith, or Holy Spirit to represent their biblical charter, as for example the Christian Catholic Apostolic Holy Spirit Church in Zion of South Africa. These are known in general as Zionists or Spirit Churches.
The churches were introduced into Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in the 1920s by migrant workers returning from South Africa; endless schisms and new foundations followed. In the mid-1980s the largest was the African Apostolic Church of Johane Maranke, which claimed about 260,000 adherents in Zimbabwe and many others in surrounding countries.
Since the 1920s the racial and political concerns shared with Ethiopianism (an earlier movement toward religious and political autonomy) have declined, especially in South Africa; the better established Zionists have become Ethiopian in type, or more like white evangelical or revivalist churches. These tendencies are apparent in the two largest South African groups—the Zion Christian Church (founded 1925), whose membership is estimated at 80,000 to 600,000, and Limba’s austere Church of Christ (founded 1910), which had about 120,000 members in the 1980s."....
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 OF MEMBERS OF A SOUTH AFRICAN ZIONIST CHURCH SINGING AND DANCING
All Nation - Imihla Nama Langa with Prof. MM. Tshabalala
(BIC) and Bishop S.Mahlangu (CGM).
Intungwa Video Production, Jul 17, 2023
All Nation performing live at Soweto by: Intungwa Video
Production
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Here's information about Soweto from
"Soweto ... is a township of
the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa,
bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic
abbreviation for South Western Townships.[5] Formerly a separate municipality,
it is now incorporated in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality,
and one of the suburbs of Johannesburg."
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Click https://www.gov.za/about-sa/south-africas-provinces to read about South Africa's provinces. Here's the first two sentences of that article:
"South Africa has nine provinces, which vary considerably in
size. The smallest is tiny and crowded Gauteng, a highly urbanised region, and
the largest the vast, arid and empty Northern Cape, which takes up almost a
third of South Africa’s total land area."...
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TWO SHOWCASE VIDEOS OF SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOL STUDENTS SINGING RELIGIOUS SONGS
#school #worshipsong #southafricanschools #assembly
#praiseandworship #prayer
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Here are a few comments from another video of this same school:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgCxI4Enps "Ndikhokhele Bawo, Yawa LeMbewu, Mandigasali
Medley..Patiently Watch It gets Better ❤️π₯ππ❤️π₯", July 2, 2023
This school assembly's rendition of the traditional Xhosa song "Ndikhokhele Bawo" went viral.
1. @perpsabraham6734,2023
"Which school is this kindly?"
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Reply
2. @schoolassembly_gwijo, 2023
"Combination of schools in Motherwell, but we using the premises of a school Called Soqhayisa Senior Secondary School"
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Reply
3. @schoolassembly_gwijo,2023
"It's at the premises of Soqhayisa but congregating various schools
who are part of the ProMaths Kutlwanong Initiative to better Maths and Science
in previously disadvantaged learners in MotherweΔΊl Gqeberha'
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Here's information about Motherwell from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherwell,_South_Africa
"
Despatch, Uitenhage and
other surrounding towns."
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"Gqeberha" was formerly known as "Port Elizabeth".
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rose shoba, Mar 1,
2018
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Here are a few comments from this video's discussion thread, with numbers added for referencing purposes only.:
"where is this school?"
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Reply
2. @thokozanikhumalo1809, 2020
"Verdriet in Dannhauser
located in , Amajuba District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa"
3.
"I've been here since yesterday night I'm enjoying the song but I'm struggling to
hear what lyrics says. Can someone please help. They reminded me of church"
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4. @bonganipeter9433, 2023
"Zazikhona izinto awuzange usishiye mdali wethu
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Google Translate from Zulu and from Xhosa to English:
"There were things that our creator did not leave us
You did not leave us, our creator
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ADDENDUM - TWO SHOWCASE VIDEOS OF TOYI TOYI
Showcase Video #1 - Toyi-Toyi Dance Revolution: The Rhythms of South African Protest | Ethnomusicology Explained!
WARNING - This video includes includes violent scenes and also includes one curse word.
Dive into Part 3 of our South African music series with a
focus on the powerful toyi-toyi, a dance that became the heartbeat of protest
against apartheid. Experience the energy and the spirit of resistance through
the rhythmic chants and moves that once empowered Zimbabwean freedom fighters
and learn how it evolved into a symbol of unity and defiance in South Africa.
Texts:
Michie and Gamede, 'The Toyi-toyi was our Weapon' in Sounds
of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism (2013).
Hirsch, Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002)
Music:
ANC Youth Choir - Toyi-toyi Rhythm
Showcase Video #2 - Human Rights Day 2007 toyi toyi1
Sifuna Zonke, Uploaded on May 11, 2008
APF Human Rights Day protest
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Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vu74VFdkew "Township of Jo Slovo Toi Toi for their homes! (pt 2)" for another video of toyi toyi.
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