| He is hard at work building up a sizeable lobola so he can win Lisa's heart on 14 February. |
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| Both traditional arranged marriages and modern marriages involve the lobola, or bride-price. |
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| Silverfields Primary School from Krugersdorp donated R1 100 to the zoo for Makoko's lobola. |
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| Her family apparently informed her they had agreed to the arranged marriage and that lobola of seven cattle had already been paid. |
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| I don't have money or anything, because with Africans, what we do, we pay lobola, we call it lobola. |
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| That custom lacks the quaintness of lobola and in my world, it would be called kidnapping. |
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| Is the old Xhosa tradition of lobola going to be forgotten, and is the head of the kraal going to be two people in future? |
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| This lobola traditionally involves cattle or other livestock, but in modern times money settlements have been accepted. |
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| Marriage rates have plunged in southern Africa since the 1970s, partly because young men cannot afford the lobola, or bride price, required in cattle. |
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| Cattle were their wealth, the lobola with which men paid for brides. |
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| Now the church members, and Mpani's co-treasurer, Zameka Dikeni, say that the priest paid for the lavish wedding party and lobola out of church funds. |
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| In marriages where lobola is paid, the husband has absolute rights over children and the reproductive rights of the wife. |
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| He said discussions about lobola had not yet been finalised. |
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| The certificate showed that the women's father had consented to the marriage and that lobola had either been negotiated or settled. |
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| And Mandela's elders negotiated her bride price or lobola with Machel's Mozambican kin. |
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| As previously reported the payment of lobola still remains a factor in the marriage process. |
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| Under statutory law, neither lobola nor parental consent is necessary in contracting a marriage. |
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| Nandi was the first of Zwelithini's daughters to marry and Mtirara paid 120 cattle and two horses as lobola and bought his bride a R65000 diamond ring. |
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| But the good news is that the two men have apparently reconciled, so much so that Mokoena is no longer requesting the return of the lobola he paid for Herbie. |
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| If he has beaten her, he must pay an additional cow in lobola. |
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| My sister Baliwe, who was older than Mabel, had been engaged to be married, and lobola had already been paid. |
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| The assumption is that, the status, body and labour of women belong to men after the payment of lobola or roora or dowry. |
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| It is also important to note that the Act makes the payment of lobola one of the requirements of a valid customary marriage. |
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| Cattle are given as bridewealth by a groom in a custom called lobola. |
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| This means that, even where parties have contracted a marriage under statutory law, payment of lobola signifies the delivery of the bride and the confirmation of a marriage. |
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| Law reform in this area is likely to inspire heated debates on issues Like lobola and polygamy. |
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| However, in terms of custody of children after divorce, in some customary law marriages lobola discriminates against women in that it confers a right of custody of the children to the husband. |
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| The woman gave evidence before the President of the Lubuli National Tribunal, Mbalekelwa Mngomezulu, that the cattle had been given as lobola for a woman she wished to marry. |
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| However, the farmers in the current study also kept cattle for ceremonies, meat, draught, manure, lobola and status quo as observed in similar studies by Mapiye et al. |
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