Emmanuel Vusumuzi Dube was born on 1952 or 1953 and 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.
11 Facts About Vusi Dube
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Vusi Dube is the founder of eThekwini Community Church, a large charismatic church in Durban, and of Community Churches International.
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Vusi Dube is known as an ally of former President Jacob Zuma.
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Vusi Dube was born in 1952 or 1953 and is from Sobantu, a village outside Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Vusi Dube was the eldest of three children and his grandfather was an evangelist in the Presbyterian Church.
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In 2005, Vusi Dube founded an independent charismatic church, the eThekwini Community Church in Durban, with other pastors who broke away from the Durban Christian Centre.
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Vusi 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.
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Vusi Dube's church is affiliated to the National Interfaith Council of South Africa, and Dube personally has served as NICSA's co-convenor.
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Vusi Dube is a member of the ANC and by 2010 he represented the party in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature.
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Vusi Dube was re-elected to the provincial legislature in the 2014 general election, ranked 20th on the ANC's provincial party list, and in the 2019 general election, ranked 44th on the ANC's party list.
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Vusi Dube is married to Takalani Dube, who is a pastor.