A Zulu bride wowed South Africans when she wore a cape made of R100 notes on her wedding day. She danced during her ceremony ...

A white man paid lobola for his black medical doctor fiancée from South Africa. The TikTok video went viral, sparking ...

South African women tweaked the ancient lobola rules that favoured the men and created a new one. The require men to pay more if they have kids before marriage.

Lobola is an African custom by which a groom'sfamily makes a payment in cattle or cash to the bride'sfamily shortly before the marriage. However, Zuku did things a bit differently by paying her own ...

The 31-year-old, from Intabazwe, alleged that his friends robbed him of the money he intended to use for a lobola payment on Saturday, Sergeant Mmako Mophiring said. "He told police he was with three ...

As we head into December, this is a lobola-rich period as many traditionally get paid 13th cheques and bonuses, which help with the raising of funds required to take the next step. ALSO READ ...

In Lobola Man, now streaming on Netflix, a self-described player makes his living as a negotiator of lobola, monetizing in his favor the traditional South African cultural practice of compensating ...

A new phone app calculates how many cows a South African bride-to-be is worth. The 'Lobola Calculator ' - Lobola means bride price, or dowry - calculates a woman's marital value and then ...

Should he want to have her hand in marriage, he has to pay lobola first. His girlfriend is adamant that he must pay lobola for her. And she has a fair idea of the amount of money her elders might ...

According to Zulu culture, if you pay lobola, you are not due a "refund" should things go haywire between you and your wife-to-be. "Lobola is not forced on anyone, a man pays lobola out of the ...