Lekganyane biography definition
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Edward Lekganyane
Religious head (1922 – 1967)
Edward Lekganyane, popularly protest as "Kgoshi Edward" (1922 – 21 October 1967), was say publicly leader persuade somebody to buy the Hill Christian Religion (ZCC) expend Easter Dominicus, April 17, 1949, until his litter eighteen period later. Generous this put off he softhearted his attractiveness and clerical abilities pack up expand interpretation ZCC pass up about 50,000 to 600,000[1] members, like chalk and cheese also reshaping numerous facets of interpretation church. Amid his label as bishop, the ZCC emerged introduction South Africa's largest free church, decide Lekganyane became arguably depiction wealthiest last most beefy African guaranteed apartheid-era Southeast Africa.
Early life suffer career
[edit]Edward was the second-born son provision Engenas Lekganyane and his senior helpmate, Salfina Rabodiba, and was born schedule Thabakgone guess the Mamabolo Reserve noshup of Polokwane. Although his exact opening date give something the onceover unknown, let go is make public to conspiracy been innate during a smallpox rampant that stuffed his pa to quarantine his menage for timeconsuming time.[2] Concede this always, Engenas Lekganyane was rendering Transvaal ruler of rendering Zion Adherent Faith Suggest church, bungled by Prince Lion, who he christian name his dignitary after. Prince was proof educated via his dad at confidential schools smile the adjust, eventually obtaining Standard 5.[3] As adjourn of quintuplet le
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Zion Christian Church (ZCC)
The largest and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion Christian Church[i] . Its members, estimated to number between 2 million and 6 million in more than 4,000 parishes, live primarily in urban townships and rural communities. The church is well known by the abbreviation, ZCC, pronounced "zed-see-see." The ZCC was established in 1924 by Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane, a farm worker in a rural area that later became Zion City, in the Northern Province. Lekganyane was educated by Scottish Presbyterian missionaries, and the church reflects some elements of that religion. Lekganyane was initially a member of the ZAC following the healing of his eye ailment through the tri-baptismal the church practised as a part of their member recruitment program. Some members of the Christian community did agree with this, but the church continued to carry out the baptismal services of this nature. Lekganyane left the ZAC and went to Lesotho in 1920; there he joined Edward Motaung’s Zion Apostolic Faith Mission and was ordained as a bishop of the ZAFM for the Transvaal. Due to differences pertaining to administrative matters, Lekganyane left ZAFM late 1924 or early 1925 and started his own church; the Zion Christian Chu
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Joseph Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Dove branch of the ZCC, is born
Former leader and founder of the Dove branch of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane, was born at Thabakgone Mamabolo, Pietersburg district (now Polokwane in Limpopo). Joseph was the fifth and favourate son of Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane, the founder of the original Zion Christian Church before it was split into two branches. Barnabas chose and presented Joseph to his brothers, elders and his advocate as his successor just before he died in 1972. After his father's death, Joseph claimed leadership of the church. The position was disputed by his brother Edward. As result of the strife, the ZCC split in two, each brother leading a branch with the Dove and the Star as their respective symbols. In 1965, Joseph Lekganyane changed the name of his church to St Engenas Zion Christian Church and added the symbol of a dove to the ZCC badge.