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 ...

Every year, thousands of young girls arrive at the Zulu King Palace in Nongoma and have already undergone virginity testing in their districts throughout the province in a bid to get married to the ...

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 ...

The Reed Dance is a Zulu tradition which dates back to ancestral times, where virgin maidens gather reeds for the royal monarch to symbolise their purity. For the Easter weekend the Durban-based ...

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 ...

The Amafikalishona Prisoners Zulu dance group will compete at the regional level soon. This comes after they were judged as the best performing group and came first during an Offender Indlamu (Zulu ...