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In South Africa, the ceremony is known as Umkhosi woMhlanga, [clarification needed] and takes place every year in September at the Enyokeni Royal Palace in Nongoma Enyokeni, KwaZulu-Natal. [4] The girls come from all parts of Zululand , and in recent years there are also smaller groups from Eswatini , as well as more distant places such as ...
The festival has mass participation by young men, as Umkhosi woMhlanga has by young women. There is a black bull sacrifice in the king's kraal as the young men work together to kill the animal without weapons, which was the subject of a failed lawsuit by South African animal rights activists in 2009.
Traditionally it marked a time of prosperity, in the good harvests experienced after the seasonal agricultural period. It also brought people together, unifying them at a time of merry making and quashing fears of famine. In South Africa the tradition is practiced by Zulu people of KwaZulu-Natal as Umkhosi Wokweshwama.
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Umkhosi woMhlanga, the reed dance of the virgins (izintombi) hosted by the King Zulu militia or regiments ( amabutho ) over which the King is the leader and to whom they swear fealty The King was historically formally an absolute monarch who was the head of state, head of government, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Kingdom of the ...
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