lobola
lobolo

You should set the lobola as one hundred head of cattle.

As our father asks no lobola, perhaps you have taken the gift instead.

The groom is not finished paying when he has paid the lobola.

The traditional lobola payments were rarely made and no contract drawn up between the families.

Should the wife initiate the divorce, the father will have to repay some of the lobola.

This was the lobola, the marriage price, two hundred head of prime beasts, as had been agreed.

Part of what makes weddings so expensive is the traditional bride payments, called lobola.

Time changes everything and it has not spared the ancient custom of bride price or lobola.

But these days, when lobola is often in cash, it is usually spent long before any breakup.

Here in South Africa they call it lobola or bohali.

After gathering enough money to pay lobola, the couple married in the local Presbyterian Church.

But surveys have found wide support for lobola.

If the wife refuses to return to the husband, then the husband may make a claim to a portion of the lobola.

The lobola is not the only price demanded,' Hendrick told him. '

The government wanted to abolish polygamy and marriages with lobola, but they continued to be legally recognised.

Masilela's girlfriend is pregnant, and though he wants to marry her, he's having trouble raising the bride price, called lobola here.

The Act does not make any reference to the repayment of lobola in relation to the dissolution of the marriage.

However, nowadays lobola is mostly paid before the couple is married, when the woman is not as yet legally bound.

He said it was thought the rebels were from the Enyele tribe - a Lobola sub-tribe.

This follows, he argues, from the view that the lobola contract is separate from the marriage contract.

Perhaps it is a cost-cutting measure to compensate for the high lobola payments as the go-between does not come for free.

Their husbands, particularly if they have paid lobola (bride-price), believe they should control their wives' fertility.

The primary purpose of lobola is to build relations between the respective families as marriage is seen as more than a union between two individuals.

Soil erosion was not helped by the over-stocking of cattle which were regarded as wealth, and essential for paying "lobola" or bride-price.

You asked a hundred head of cattle as the lobola [that is, the marriage gift] of your daughter, Mameena.

For those who do have the financial means, the issue can be Lobolo's opportunity cost.

A man is seen to love his partner when he strives to save and pay for lobolo.

He recently paid lobolo (a Zulu dowry) for two other women.

In its most benign form, lobolo is a token of appreciation from the groom's family to the bride's.

In Botswana, many families still follow the lobolo custom where men pay a woman's family in order to take her as a bride.

The practice of bride price, known also as lobolo, is common in Malawi, and plays a major role in forced marriage.

Women's rights advocates want to abolish marriage payments, or lobolo, saying they create a financial incentive for parents to marry off their daughters.

Among the various stages of the lobolo ceremony, the groom-to-be has to provide outfits for the mother of the bride.

The commission suggested that polygamy and lobolo be outlawed and that there be a more civil approach to the administration of native affairs.

Zuma has paid lobolo to the family of Madiba, described as a socialite from Durban, as custom demands.

The constitutionality of polygamy and lobolo is a contentious issue, requiring their balance against the rights of equality and of dignity.

Eight years ago he also paid lobolo (bride wealth), the first step towards a traditional marriage, to the family of Sebentile Dlamini, a Swazi princess.

In the Shona and Ndebele cultures in Zimbabwe, Lobolo takes place in a number of stages.

A man marrying a woman from the Shona or Ndebele culture has to observe lobolo (called roora in Shona).

Earlier this year, local press reported that Zuma paid lobolo — an offering of cattle or the cash equivalent — to her family, making her his bride-to-be.

The common term for the arrangement in southern Africa is lobolo, from the Nguni language, a term often used in central and western Africa as well.

In much of northern Malawi, lobolo negotiations are typically all-male discussions of down payments, installments, settlements and the occasional refund for a wife who runs off.

The latter marks the conclusion of the colonisers' internal debate about the acceptability or reprehensibility of the practices of polygyny and lobolo (bridewealth).

Not that this guarantees a wedding: Zuma reportedly paid lobolo in 2002 for a princess from the royal family of Swaziland, but she still hasn't sealed the deal.

Polygyny and lobolo was later codified in the Natal Code, and subsequently confirmed as legitimate in the Native Administration Act of 1927.

Semanya (2014) claims that even high-profile figures such as Nelson Mandela practiced the custom, by paying a lobolo of 60 cows for his wife, Graça Machel.

Lobola or Lobolo (sometimes also known as Roora) is the same tradition in most cultures in Southern Africa Shona, Venda, Zulu, Ndebele etc.

Many traditional marriages utilise a cash-based Lobolo; this can be then followed by a European-style wedding ceremony, where the Lobolo funds are used to pay for expenses.

Dowry is mainly practiced in South Asia while bride price in Sub-Saharan Africa (see lobolo) and some regions in Southeast Asia (e.g. Cambodia, Thailand).

Marriage between the Continental peoples under early Germanic law bore a close resemblance to that of the lobolo marriage in terms of the customary law of South African indigenous peoples.