Traditionally clad Zulu maidens prepare to take part in the mini reed dance (uMkhosi woMhlanga) in the rural district of Emalangeni, some 80kms north of Durban on August 19, 2017. / AFP A ...

Zulu maidens participating in this year's annual Royal Reed Dance will, for the first time in the history of the traditional event, be given career guidance. To add to the educational value of the ...

Thousands of young women and teenage girls will dance before the new king of South Africa’s Zulu nation on Saturday, defying critics of the tradition and a row over the legitimacy of the royal ...

The recent call by the Zulu royal house for maidens to cover their rears at this year’s Reed Dance is both puzzling and offensive. A week after his 60th birthday and shortly after announcing that his ...

Zulu maidens who are graduates from tertiary institutions have expressed anger at KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Arts and Culture, Mntomuhle Khawula, after he barred them from addressing the crowd at the ...

A lot has been said about Zulu maidens parading bare-breasted in public, but those who understand the culture say it is a matter of pride and not shame – unless one has eaten of the forbidden fruit, ...

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 ...

Any event featuring Jacob Zuma, virginity tests and more than 25,000 bare-breasted maidens dancing for a polygamous king is unlikely to pass entirely without incident. And so it proved with this ...

For her final reed dance, KwaZulu-Natal maiden Palesa Zwane, 22, will not be surrounded by hundreds of fellow young women to participate in an age-old Zulu cultural rite of passage. Instead of ...

Zulu maidens outside the Vereeniging Magistrates Court where the five suspects accused of the murder of two 25 year olds will appear. Picture: Jabulile Mbatha/ EWN A group of Zulu maidens has staged a ...