A religious and cultural rebrand for Bongani Baloyi but will it win votes?

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Mcebisi Ndletyana | A religious and cultural rebrand for Bongani Baloyi but will it win votes?

"Could that be Bongani?" I mumbled to myself as I saw a passing image on television. The face looked like Bongani Baloyi's, the former mayor of the Midvaal municipality, but there was something around the head, a headgear, that threw me off. I'd never seen Baloyi with a headgear before. So, I paid close attention to the television screen.

Indeed, it was Baloyi, with a headgear. He looked quite different from the urbane-looking Baloyi I'd become accustomed to. Instead of the universal look here, and in many other appearances, I subsequently noticed that Baloyi was presenting either a religious or cultural image of himself. On enquiring, I realised that it was religious imagery. The man worships at the Nazareth Baptist Church, also known as Shembe. They wear a headgear .

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