Posted on 09/26/2005 6:56:51 AM PDT by reelfoot
THE king of Swaziland has picked a teenage student to be his 13th bride less than a month after more than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to catch his eye at the annual Reed Dance ceremony.
King Mswati III, who is 37, presented 17-year-old Phindile Nkambule as his new wife-to-be at a traditional ceremony, where she appeared topless but donned the red feathers worn only by royalty for the first time.
Women's groups and political opponents said King Mswati's penchant for multiple young brides ill befits a country with the world's highest rate of HIV/AIDS, but the monarch said polygamy is part of Swazi tradition and helps cement national unity.
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Ms Nkambule - who beat a glamorous TV presenter and Miss Swaziland to become the king's new bride - joined 10,000 maidens in a regional Reed Dance ceremony to dance in traditional beaded mini-skirts with buttocks exposed.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
I'm going to have a Reed Dance to find my next wife!
After all, the King IS the father of his country...
Pics?
Just don't play the music too loud!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/28/swazi.princess.reut/
what about diversity? shouldn't we be tolerant and embrace the culture of another?
For the girls, Umhlanga is fun, like summer camp, away from home, parents and chores. Tindvuna -- chaperones -- provide adult supervision. There is plenty of partying. Some casual sex happens, just as it does in summer camp. Anti-Aids activists are with the girls throughout. This is a perfect time for Aids prevention.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200509160337.html
ROFLOL I wonder why he has such a big smile on his face?
Is this the same guy that tried to buy Chelsea?
....Speculation swirled that she caught the royal eye during the bigger national Reed Dance held earlier this month, which drew a record 50,000 virgins to dance for sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, who came dressed in a leopard-lion cloth.
Google "reed dance" and click images for the 50,000 "virgins".
Apparently his interview process paid off.
Tough choice...so many virgins so little time. Bill Clinton isn't too busy these days maybe he could chair a screening committee for the King.
This thread is useless without pix.
Oh wait, this isn't Fark, nevermind.
If I did that, with my luck, these would be the only virgins that showed up.
It's good to be the King..
These look like the cheer leaders from the donkeys and cheaps
I guess she "stood out" in the crowd.
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