Exceptional times call for exceptional measures, and the Zulu tradition known as Umkhosi woMhlanga is no exception. This year, as a result of Covid-19, only 30 maidens were invited to participate in a ...

Last week, thousands of Zulu maidens descended on the eMashobeni Royal Palace in Pongola to take part in Umkhosi woMhlanga, the Reed Dance, which is one of South Africa’s most sacred and striking ...

ALEX'S Zulu maidens returned home safely from their participation in the annual Reed Dance ceremony at the King's Palace in KwaZulu-Natal. With them are their elderly companions, Busisiwe Hlongwane ...

Fikile Khubone (23) was one of the 26 000 Zulu maidens (virgins) who turned out for uMkhosi WoMhlanga — the Reed Dance — on September 11. It took her six hours by bus to get from her home in Edendale ...

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 ...

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 ...

Durban – Preparations are under way for the annual uMkhosi Womhlanga (Reed Dance) at eNyokeni Palace in Nongoma, northern KwaZulu-Natal, the arts and culture department said on Monday. Thousands of ...

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 ...

Nongoma - Princess Nomcebo has handed over the first reed to her father, King Goodwill Zwelithini, at the Enyokeni Royal Palace in Nongoma during the annual Umkhosi woMhlanga Reed Dance. The palace ...

Edtea MEC said this year's reed dance will be a catalyst for the revival of the province's tourism industry, which suffered a drawback due to Covid-19. Zulu maidens at Emachobeni Royal Palace in ...

Thousands of young women‚ some from Swaziland‚ Gauteng and Mpumalanga‚ will descend on Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini’s Enyokeni Palace in Nongoma‚ northern KwaZulu-Natal‚ on Friday for the annual ...

There was an unusual shift in focus at this year's traditional Reed Dance in KwaZulu-Natal. For a start, the event was reduced to one day instead of four. And the regular sight of thousands of singing ...