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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...