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  2. Umhlanga (ceremony) - Wikipedia

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    Umhlanga [um̩ɬaːŋɡa], or Reed Dance ceremony, is an annual Swazi event that takes place at the end of August or at the beginning of September. [1] In Eswatini , tens of thousands of unmarried and childless Swazi girls and women travel from the various chiefdoms to the Ludzidzini Royal Village to participate in the eight-day event. [ 2 ]

  3. 2025 in Eswatini - Wikipedia

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    Years in Eswatini: 2022 ... Umhlanga; 6 September - Somhlolo Day; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...

  4. Ludzidzini Royal Village - Wikipedia

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    The Ludzidzini Royal Village is the home to the House of Dlamini, the royal family of Eswatini, currently led by Ngwenyama (King) Mswati III (born 1968) and Ndlovukati (Queen Mother) Ntfombi (born c. 1950). The village is also known for the annual Umhlanga reed dance ceremony.

  5. Swazi people - Wikipedia

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    The Swati people and the Kingdom of Eswatini today are named after Mswati II, who became king in 1839 after the death of his father King Sobhuza. Eswatini was a region first occupied by the San people and the current Swazis migrated from north East Africa through to Mozambique and eventually settled in Eswatini in the 15th century. Their royal ...

  6. Incwala - Wikipedia

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    Incwala (Swazi:) is the main ritual of kingship in the Kingdom of Eswatini. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is a national event that takes place during the summer solstice . [ 3 ] The main participant in incwala is the King of Eswatini ; when there is no king there is no incwala. [ 4 ]

  7. Bantu peoples of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Umhlanga is an annual event that originates from Eswatini in the 1940s from the rule of King Sobhuza II, it is an adaptation of a much older ceremony of Umchwasho. In South Africa it was introduced by the Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu in 1991 to be later known as Umkhosi womHlanga , as a means to encourage young Zulu girls to delay ...

  8. Succession to the Swazi throne - Wikipedia

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    2019 Inkhosikati LaMashwama (born 1998 as Siphelele Mashwama) daughter of Jabulile Mashwama; one of the country's senators, graduated from the elite Waterford Kamhlaba high school in Eswatini and was a student at Rochester University in the United States when her parents terminated her studies in September 2017 to marry the King. Siphelele was ...

  9. Original – The 2006 Umhlanga (Reed Dance) ceremony in Eswatini. Reason I think this serves a purpose separate to the identification of the people in it (though the centremost one is Sikhanyiso Dlamini): It does an excellent job at showing the garb and pomp of Umhlanga Articles in which this image appears