Young women, known locally in the KwaZulu-Natal province as "maidens", participate in a traditional "reed dance", an age-old annual ceremony in celebration of sexual purity among young girls. It is the first dance since the pandemic, and a new monarch has just been installed
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A group of thousands of topless girls with reed sticks are to dance Saturday before the Zulu king, the traditional leader of South Africa s largest ethnic group, in a ritual that once allowed the ruler to choose his wives.