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 ...

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

As many as 60 000 maidens were estimated to have registered for this year's Reed Dance, up from around 40 000 in 2007. The dance is one of the high points of the Swazi cultural calendar and an ...

Eswatini's King Mswati III (C) reviews the Swati maidens holding reeds the 2023 Umhlanga Reed Dance ceremony, at the Mbangweni Royal Residence on October 14, 2023. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) ...

NONGOMA (SOUTH AFRICA) - South Africa's new Zulu king on Saturday celebrated thousands of young women at a colourful traditional rite of womanhood, defying a row over the legitimacy of the royal ...

Zulu maidens present reeds to King of Amazulu nation Misuzulu kaZwelithini (C) during the annual Umkhosi Womhlanga (reed dance) at the Enyokeni Royal Palace in Nongoma on September 17, 2022. PHOTO/AFP ...

The King emerges from a tight circle of Zulu warriors to accept his first ever reed as the new monarch, smiling as the crowd sings unending praises. The rest of the girls walk past the king in a ...

Every September, tens of thousands of women, known locally as maidens, descend on the royal palace in the mountain town of Nongoma in the southeast KwaZulu-Natal province, to perform a reed dance.

Meanwhile -- this is, after all, Eswatini -- a South African lawyer representing two jailed pro-democracy Swazi MPs has been expelled for allegedly urging maidens not to attend the annual Reed ...

Mngomezulu denied calling on the maidens to boycott the Reed Dance and said the government’s real reason for effectively banning him was that he had publicly supported the two MPs in calling for ...

King Misuzulu kaZwelithini’s claim to the Zulu throne was contested up to the moment he entered the kraal at 11.48am on Saturday, 20 August 2022, at Khangelamankengane Royal Palace in Nongoma ...