Ludzidzini, Swaziland - A five-year no-sex rite for Swazi girls aimed at halting the spread of Aids ended on Monday as more than 20 000 young women symbolically dropped their woollen "don't touch me" ...

Lobamba - At least 38 young Swazi girls have been killed and 20 others critically injured while on their way to cut reeds for the Umhlanga Reed Dance in Swaziland, according the media reports on ...

This August will see a hive of colorful activity in the tiny Kingdom of Swaziland – it is the beginning of the ancient “Umhlanga” or Annual Reed Dance Festival. This August will see a hive of colorful ...

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 ...

Swaziland is a small landlocked country in southern Africa- ruled by the continent’s last absolute monarch. The reed dance which takes place yearly is the most well-known cultural event in the country ...

Coming of age for Swazi girls is tough. A tiny African nation of one million, Swaziland is ruled by one of the world’s last remaining absolute monarchies. Its age-old tradition of polygamy and its ...

Swazi maidens deliver their reeds that they cut to the King Mswati III of Swaziland on Aug. 31. EPA/IHSAAN HAFFEJEE JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s annual Zulu Reed Dance ceremony was disrupted by ...