ULUNDI Municipality has conducted a comprehensive transport inspection to ensure all buses that will be transporting maidens to the annual Reed Dance ceremony are in good condition. The Reed Dance ...

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 ...

Stringent measures have been put in place for this weekend's Royal Reed Dance Festival to prevent photographers from taking pictures for pornographic use. Mpumelelo Mnguni, chief director of the ...

Durban - Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini was in a confrontational mood on Saturday as the Reed Dance marked its 30th anniversary. The king used the event to voice a number of concerns including the veil ...

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 ...

Nomcebo Maseko and Nothando Mdiniso from the Izintombi Zothingo Lenkosazane maidens group in Wesselton, do a traditional dance as they prepare for the reed ceremony. The Izintombi Zothingo Lenkosazane ...

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 ...

A 65-year-old virgin has revealed her excitement after she was cleared to participate in the annual reed dance in South Africa. Ngipheni Ngcobo may be one of the oldest virgins at the age of 65, but ...

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 ...