Obama turned Libya from the country that had the highest standard of living in Africa into a war-torn failed state, and dropped so many bombs on Syria that he literally ran out of bombs. Yet some still portray him as a saint.
King Shaka paid lobola for Monase Nxumalo on behalf of his brother Mpande, and she was already pregnant(by Shaka) at the time. She went on to bear Mbuyazi who became one of Mpande’s sons and later a central figure in the succession struggle with Cetshwayo.
It cuts directly against the “virgins only” argument. If the king himself paid lobola for a woman with child, the custom clearly wasn’t a purity test it was about uniting families and legitimizing the union, whatever the circumstances….. ilobolo is a covenant between two families, not a price tag on a bride. Purity is honored through one specific cow, “Ingquthu”not through lobola itself. The other ten cows must be paid regardless. So the virginity condition sits inside the system as a bonus, not as the foundation.
Having said all this Purity(Virginity) is sacrosanct too very important. We must encourage it by all means. Kuhle ukuzigcina kuze kufike isikhathi esifanele 👌🏾