Held in the Kingdom of Eswatini, the titular reed dance is an annual ceremony where tens of thousands of unmarried women come to dance in extremely skimpy outfits in front of the king in the hope that ...

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Amazulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini’s decision to move the annual Reed Dance ceremony from Enyokeni Palace to a new palace, Mashobeni, could pit him against the cash-strapped KwaZulu-Natal provincial ...

S.Africa's Zulu Reed Dance Scaled Back On Virus Fears By AFP - Agence France Presse Sept 05, 2020, 11:37 am EDT Share ...

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 ...

Zulu maidens under the KwaFodo Traditional Authority in the Gugwini area, outside Harding, are ready for the annual Umkhosi Womhlanga (Reed Dance) to be held in KwaNongoma on September 13 and 14.