Tuesday, April 15, 2008

‘I want to choose my own wife’

The age-old African royal practice of choosing and appointing a wife for a king as the mother of the nation could be something of the past within the AmaMpondo, who this weekend welcomed a new king.

Addressing the nation in a ceremony to officially introduce him as the new Western Pondoland Kingdom head, King Ndamase Ndlovuyezwe Ndamase said he was against the practice of choosing a wife for a king.

Read the rest of this Sowetan Online story.

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