The rule of thumb when investing is to separate matters of money and affairs of the heart, but there’s one big exception to that: lobolo. The practice of a groom paying the bride’s family in cash or ...

So what happens when a guy that earns R8 000 a month wants to marry you, but can't afford it? I want to believe that I am a slightly cultured black lady. I was raised by a staunch traditional Sesotho ...

Wednesday's official visit to the White House had all the hallmarks of a high-stakes lobolo negotiation. President Cyril Ramaphosa, standing tall as the head of delegation, was not just there for pomp ...

Police have made a breakthrough in the killing of 16 people in a drawn-out family feud sparked by allegations of infertility and a demand for the return of cows paid as lobolo in the Eastern Cape.

Using her ministry's travel allowance, she organised trips to facilitate the wedding plans of her niece and a clerk in her office Social development deputy minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu offered to ...

Popular Gagasi FM presenter Felix Hlophe has been placed on two weeks' leave after a domestic dispute went viral on social ...

The families of two KwaZulu-Natal teenagers refuted claims that the boy paid lobolo for the girl, a Sunday paper reported. "We never paid lobola for her. They are too young to be even thinking about ...

“Men are never ugly”. Nnu Ego makes this statement in Buchi Emecheta’s novel, The Joys of Motherhood, set during the colonial period in Nigeria. In a scene between two friends, the protagonist Nnu Ego ...

Zuma's bride-to-be and her brother don't seem to know why their father was ranting to Isolezwe about the former president's former promises. According to her brother Shayimamba Conco, Nonkanyiso Conco ...