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 ...

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 ...

Nomcebo Maseko and Nothando Mdiniso from the Izintombi Zothingo Lenkosazane maidens group in Wesselton, do a traditional dance as they prepare for the reed ceremony. The Izintombi Zothingo Lenkosazane ...

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 ...

Public Works and infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson will pay a courtest visit to Zulu King Misuzulu kwaZwelithini on ...

A 65-year-old virgin has revealed her excitement after she was cleared to participate in the annual reed dance in South Africa. Ngipheni Ngcobo may be one of the oldest virgins at the age of 65, but ...

LUDZIDZINI ROYAL VILLAGE, Swaziland (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of bare-breasted virgins competed for Swaziland King Mswati III's eye on Monday in a traditional Reed Dance. Sign up here. Walking ...

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 ...