Police spokesman Superintendent Muzi Mngomezulu said the stampede was caused by “pushing and shoving” while the young women were walking up to the palace for the event which is attended by about ...

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 ...

Every year, thousands of young girls arrive at the Zulu King Palace in Nongoma and have already undergone virginity testing in their districts throughout the province in a bid to get married to the ...