Published: 2013 April 22 11:13:30 (6020 Views)

Two South African sisters aged 60 and 96 are proud that they are still virgins.

The Ngcobo sisters, Ngipheni (60) and Badumile (96) from KwaMafunza near Pietermaritzburg are believed to be the oldest women to ever attend the annual Reed Dance Ceremony at Enyokeni Palace in Nongoma.

Ngipheni told Daily Sun that she "started going for virginity testing when I was 12. Like all the girls, I wanted to get married to a man who could buy me a beautiful house and take care of me – but this never happened."

"I waited for Mr Right until I was 43 and then I lost hope. I didn't meet a man suitable to be my husband. All the men who proposed were not what I wanted. Now I am a gogo (old lady) and I don't want a man next to me.

"When I was 26, I was involved with a man and we hoped to build a bright future together. We didn't sleep together because back then there was a practice where unmarried girls had a form of sex without penetration.

"We were doing things the traditional way but it didn't work out. I heard that he was seeing another girl who wasn't a virgin and we broke up."

Reed Dance ceremony, is an annual Swazi and Zulu tradition held in August or September. Tens of thousands of unmarried and childless Swazi/Zulu girls and women travel from their villages to participate in the eight-day event.

In Swaziland they gather at the Queen Mother's royal village, which currently is Ludzidzini Royal Village, while Nongoma is the site of the royal reed dance in Zululand. After arriving at the Queen Mother's royal residence, or Enyokeni Palace in Zululand, the women disperse the following night to surrounding areas and cut tall reeds.

The following night they bundle them together and bring them back to the Queen Mother to be used in repairing holes in the reed windscreen surrounding the royal village.  After a day of rest and washing the women prepare their traditional costumes consisting of a bead necklace, rattling anklets made from cocoons, a sash, and skirt.  Many of them carry the bush knife they used to cut the reeds as a symbol of their virginity. - Daily Sun

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