KwaZulu-Natal's Treasury said it will not provide additional funding for this year’s Reed Dance festival to compensate for the extra costs incurred by king Misuzulu kaZwelithini’s decision to move the ...

KwaZulu-Natal Treasury says it will not provide additional funding for this year’s Reed Dance festival to cater for the extra cost created by king Misuzulu kaZwelithini’s decision to move the event ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DURBAN - KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) law enforcement and traffic officers will be intensifying safety operations across the province as thousands of people are expected to be attending the annual uMkhosi ...

The king of the AmaZulu nation singled out cultural analyst and professor Musa Xulu during Saturday’s event, accusing him of disrespect for his criticism of the royal house. FILE: King Misuzulu ...

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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 ...

THE Reed Dance — known as uMkhosi woMhlanga among the Zulu and uMhlanga in eSwatini — is not merely a spectacle. It is a living performance of cultural memory, moral instruction, and collective ...