Young women, known locally in the KwaZulu-Natal province as "maidens", participate in a traditional "reed dance", an age-old annual ceremony in celebration of sexual purity and promotion of sexual ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa's annual Zulu Reed Dance ceremony was disrupted by hallucinating girls who swarmed the country's president, a Johannesburg newspaper reported on Monday. Teenage girls ...
Eswatini's King Mswati III (C), South Africa's Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini (L) and former Botswana President Ian Khama (2nd R) arrive for the 2024 Umhlanga Reed ...
The annual reed dance took place at Mashobeni Royal Palace in northern KwaZulu-Natal last weekend. Thousands of maidens attended the ceremony. KwaZulu-Natal DA leader Francois Rodgers said the king's ...
The Reed Dance will be held on 14 September at Mashobeni Royal Palace in Phongola, with over 30,000 maidens and R20-million set to be spent. Politicians will no longer address the maidens, except for ...
Coronavirus lockdown rules forced Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini on Saturday to host a scaled down version of the annual reed dance celebration. Adorned in colourful beads, a young woman is pictured in ...
As the Zulu royal family wraps up final preparations for the annual Reed Dance festival which will take place at the weekend, King Misuzulu kaZwelithini’s office said the function will be conducted ...
Little wonder King Mswati III beams when he arrives – bare-chested, proudly carrying erect his golden ceremonial sword and surrounded by a bunch of beefy warriors armed with lethal-looking knobkerries ...
Ludzidzini Royal Village, Swaziland - More than 50 000 bare-breasted virgins, many hoping to be the Swazi king's 13th bride, gathered on Monday for an ancient rite that critics say ill befits a ...
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