Elderly zulu maiden
Umemulo is a traditional Zulu coming of age ceremony for women. The rituals involve slaughtering a cow and the traditional Zulu dance Ukusina involving a spear. A woman's Umemulo ceremony signifies that she is now ready for marriage. The Girl is supposed to stay 7 Days in the Rondovel with her friends and practising Songs for the Ceremony. And on the 7th day the girls wake up early in the morning to the Nearest River to bath, when they come back the Mothers do the Virginity testing to prove t...
2021-04-07 18:25:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The Swati (Swati: Emaswati, singular Liswati) are a Bantu ethnic group in Southern Africa, predominantly inhabiting Eswatini, South Africa's Mpumalanga province, and Mozambique. ... About three-quarters of the clan groups are Nguni; the remainder are Sotho, Tsonga, others North East African and San descendants.
In 1750, the Swazi successors in South Africa decided to relocate, heading north towards what is today known as KwaZulu-Natal. From there, they went north-west towards the Ususth...
2021-04-07 18:18:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Ndebele are part of a larger tribe called the Nguni, which include the Zulu, the Xhosa, and the Swazi. Collectively, the Nguni make up about two thirds of the Black population of South Africa, with the Ndebele population estimated at over 700,000 people.
There are three main groups of Ndebele people, Southern, Northern and the Ndebele of Zimbabwe. The Ndebele of Zimbabwe speak a distinct language from the Southern and Northern groups, both of which reside in South Africa.
The ...
2021-04-07 18:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This Umhlanga festival features maidens from the Nomkhubulwane cultural group.
2021-04-05 18:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Umkhosi woMhlanga (Royal reed dance) takes place every year in September at the Enyokeni Royal Palace in Nongoma Enyokeni, KwaZulu-Natal. The girls come from all parts of Zululand, and in recent years there are also smaller groups from Eswatini, as well as more distant places such as Botswana and Pondoland.
All girls are required to undergo a v**ginity test before they are allowed to participate in a royal dance. In recent years the testing practice has been met with some oppositi...
2021-04-05 18:31:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Xhosa people are a Nguni ethnic group in Southern Africa whose homeland is primarily within the modern-day Eastern Cape. There is a small but significant Xhosa-speaking community in Zimbabwe, and their language, isiXhosa, is recognised as a national language.
The Xhosa Nation is made up of two sub tribes. The main tribes are the amaGcaleka and amaRharhabe;
Presently approximately 8 million Xhosa people are distributed across the country, and the Xhosa language is ...
2021-04-05 18:12:45 +0000 UTC View PostTimezone GMT +2. Happy Easter celebrations once again, back to posts, stay tuned
2021-04-05 17:59:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Easter and Christmas times here in Africa are always holidays filled with celebrations, fun fares and religious activities. Next new uploads will be made on Monday, the 5th of April 2021, by then all holiday activities will be winding down. Happy Easter💐💐.
2021-04-03 09:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostSouth Africa's biggest ethnic group, the Zulus, last month bid a final farewell to King Goodwill Zwelithini who died on 12th of march at the age of 72 after serving for half a century.
Under Zulu's funeral rites, he should be interred by a few select men — an event the palace calls a “planting” of his remains rather than a burial.
But how is the next Zulu leader decided and what powers do they have?
The secrecy on deciding a successor 2021-04-02 20:00:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This Umhlanga festival features maidens from the Nomkhubulwane cultural group
2021-04-01 13:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Every year thousands of young women around South Africa are tested to find out if they are a v**g*n – someone who has not had s*x. Some respect this as a cultural practice, others find it degrading.
Mam’ Dladla, who coordinates a v**g*n*ty testing programme in KZN, is proud of the practice. “It is an amazing tradition which encourages young women to be proud of their bodies while they are still v**g**s,” she says.
In South Africa, the concept of v**g*n*ty testing has be...
This umhlanga video features the Nomkhubulwane cultural group maidens
2021-03-30 18:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post