New details reveal King Mswati III ignored his 16th wife, Nomcebo LaZuma, for months, leading to her exit after three months of marriage. Jacob Zuma refused to meet the royal delegation sent to ...

Days after reviving the ancient ban, King Mswati in 2001 married a virgin and fined himself one cow. Last week, he lifted the five-year ban a year early, ordering thousands of maidens to throw off ...

More than 50 000 young Swazi women have taken part in the country's annual reed dance, many of them hoping to catch the eye of King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch.

King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa ... Many maidens, who come from villages across the country, dream of joining the king’s wives who each have their own palace and BMW car.

King Mswati III of Eswatini was excited as he met the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II at the Manhyia Palace for the first ...

Swaziland's absolute monarch King Mswati III will oversee a ceremony where maidens will forsake their 2001 pledge to chastity, ahead of the annual reed dance ceremony where the king is expected to ...

King Mswati III (in center at front) dances with his regiment in front of maidens during the 2010 Reed Dance. Photograph by Kim Ludbrook, EPA/Corbis The Royal Accident ...

Hundreds of young women and girls wearing colourful skirts and necklaces danced before Eswatini's King Mswati III on Saturday, during a centuries-old, coming-of-age ceremony in Africa's last ...

King Mswati III selected Senteni in 1999 during the annual Royal Reed Dance ceremony where he customarily selects a new wife from the thousands of bare-breasted maidens who dance for him. King ...

Lobomba/Johannesburg - Undaunted by gale force winds and a thick blanket of smoke, tens of thousands of bare-breasted virgins converged on Swaziland's Royal Court bearing reeds for the queen mother in ...