Professor Anthony Diala, a scholar of African customary law discusses the changing position of indigenous laws on marriage ...

The love life of South Africa's Zulu king has the country agog - and has scandalised his socially conservative subjects as he ...

was a devoted Zulu member for 45 years and once ran for ... to formally ask her to be his queen—just as he once proposed marriage. “We like to honor that tradition,” she said.

It is not clear why the marriage contract was not an issue when the king took a second wife, Queen Nozizwe Mulela-Zulu, back in 2022. But according to South Africa's weekly Sunday World newspaper ...

Regarded as the "lion of the nation", the Zulu king is the custodian of age-old traditions that place marriage and polygamy at the heart of royal success. His role within South Africa may only be ...