Ndebele

Weddings of the Ndebele of South African are celebrated in three stages, the end of which can take several years. The first stage is negotiation of the wedding is payment for the bride, or lobola, and is paid in installments of money and livestock. A two-week sequestration of the bride is the second stage, during which time other women teach the bride how to be a good wife. The third stage is completed only when the bride has her first child.

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Source: National Geographic Magazine, November 1999, Volume 196, No. 5