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Umhlanga, or Reed Dance ceremony, is an annual Swazi and Zulu cultural
event. In Swaziland, tens of thousands of unmarried and childless Swazi
girls and women travel from the various chiefdoms to Ludzidzini to
participate in the eight-day event. Umhlanga was created in the 1940s in
Swaziland under the rule of Sobhuza II. The ceremony was an adaptation
of the umcwasho ceremony, an older cultural practice in Swaziland.
The young unmarried girls were placed in female age-regiments. Girls who
fall pregnant outside marriage had their families fined a cow. The reed
dance continues to be practiced today in Swaziland. In South Africa,
the reed dance was introduced in 1991 by the Zulu king Zwelithini. The
dance here takes place in Nongoma, a royal kraal of the Zulu king. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhx9cbBzhyw
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