JOHANNESBURG -- 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 ...

Coronavirus lockdown rules forced Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini on Saturday to host a scaled down version of the annual reed dance celebration. Adorned in colourful beads, a young woman is pictured in ...

Eswatini's King Mswati III (C), South Africa's Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini (L) and former Botswana President Ian Khama (2nd R) arrive for the 2024 Umhlanga Reed ...

King Misuzulu kaZwelithini told maidens at the reed dance in Phongola that he sees them as children and not future wives. KwaZulu-Natal DA leader Francois Rodgers said the king showed responsible ...

Teenage girls in an African tribe have been ordered to cover up during traditional dances because European tourists keep taking pictures of their bare bottoms. Young virgins have been performing the ...

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 ...

Men could be banned from the annual Reed Dance held at eNyokeni Royal Palace in Nongoma after news that a 14-year-old Zulu maiden was gang-raped at the event on Saturday evening. The girl, from ...

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 ...