Vusi Dube
Emmanuel Vusumuzi Dube is a South African politician and Christian minister who has represented the African National Congress in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature for over a decade. He is also the founder of eThekwini Community Church, a large charismatic church in Durban, and of Community Churches International. He is known as an ally of former president Jacob Zuma.
Early life and ministry
Dube was born in 1952 or 1953 and is from Sobantu, a village outside Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal. He was the eldest of three children and his grandfather was an evangelist in the Presbyterian Church.In 2005, Dube founded an independent charismatic church, the eThekwini Community Church in Durban, with other pastors who broke away from the Durban Christian Centre. Within a decade, the church regularly attracted a congregation of up to 4,000 people. Dube later founded the Community Churches International to service congregations outside eThekwini; by 2011, it had grown to seven branches, and he estimated that it had over 20,000 members in total. His church is affiliated to the National Interfaith Council of South Africa, and Dube personally has served as NICSA's co-convenor.