If a man cannot afford
lobola when the couple moves in together, payments may proceed over months or even years; in such cases, nonmarital partnerships may eventually make the transition to marriages.
Lobola is still practiced in South Africa today although problems surround the practice and changes are occurring.
seriously." (40) Because
lobola is an explicitly gendered practice, parents do not
Schapera and Maharaj have given the customary-law practice of
lobola ('bride price') substantial attention (15-16), as it underscores women's situation with regards to their bodily autonomy.
Feeling betrayed not only by her community but also by her own parents, whose concern is for the 13 head of cattle and the horse that they will receive as
lobola for her, Nokulunga fiercely resists her young husband-to-be, Xolani, when he tries to take her by force.
At the same time, until he pays
lobola (bride wealth), a biological father may not be recognised as a legitimate father of a child, especially by the family of the child's mother, and he may be restricted from visiting his child at the mother's family homestead (Makusha, Richter, & Bhana, 2012).
Riverflix, a startup founded by U.S.-based Kenyan entrepreneur Colo Shivere, has acquired roughly 1,500 titles from across the continent (including Kenyan hit "Me, My Wife and Her Guru" and Zimbabwean comedy "
Lobola") since launching last year.
Masekela explained that before a marriage, the bride and groom's families enter into a long negotiation about the "
lobola," or bride price.
(1.) That cattle still have significant symbolic currency in the modern state of 21st century South Africa is attested to by Nelson Mandela having paid
lobola (loosely translated as pride price and valued as a number of head of cattle) for his bride, Graca Machel, widow of Samora Machel the ex-president of Mozambique.
Bridewealth, sometimes called bride price or
lobola, is the payment from a husband's family to a wife's family in recognition of the couple's marriage.
to declare that the custom of
lobola or bogadi or other similar