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 ...

A group of Zulu maidens called on search engine giant Google to stop removing their bare-breasted pictures from the internet. The maidens made the call on Saturday at the annual reed dance, where they ...

Zulu maidens participating in this year's annual Royal Reed Dance will, for the first time in the history of the traditional event, be given career guidance. To add to the educational value of the ...

Every year, thousands of young girls arrive at the Zulu King Palace in Nongoma and have already undergone virginity testing in their districts throughout the province in a bid to get married to the ...

A lot has been said about Zulu maidens parading bare-breasted in public, but those who understand the culture say it is a matter of pride and not shame – unless one has eaten of the forbidden fruit, ...

Thousands of maidens at the annual Zulu Reed Dance in KwaZulu-Natal arrived this weekend to a marquee without any carpets to sleep on, and raised their ire when carpets arrived later that were like ...

Durban - The Zulu royal family have accused the ANC Women’s League of being irresponsible and not caring about young women after the league called for a ban on virginity testing. The royal family was ...

Thousands of young women and teenage girls will dance before the new king of South Africa’s Zulu nation on Saturday, defying critics of the tradition and a row over the legitimacy of the royal ...

Any event featuring Jacob Zuma, virginity tests and more than 25,000 bare-breasted maidens dancing for a polygamous king is unlikely to pass entirely without incident. And so it proved with this ...

Zulu maidens outside the Vereeniging Magistrates Court where the five suspects accused of the murder of two 25 year olds will appear. Picture: Jabulile Mbatha/ EWN A group of Zulu maidens has staged a ...