{"id":141515,"date":"2015-08-07T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T12:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=141515"},"modified":"2015-08-07T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T12:08:09","slug":"king-of-swaziland-chooses-wife-tests-topless-girls-virginity-publicly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=141515","title":{"rendered":"King of Swaziland chooses wife, tests topless girls\u2019 virginity publicly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common tradition in Swaziland (Swazi) permits the King, Mswati, to choose a new bride every year.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports by Talk Africa, it has been a long time tradition in Swaziland and isn\u2019t the first time this controversial issue is making it into the news.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that in 2012, Dailymail reported that topless virgins were paraded in front of the Swazi King, to celebrate chastity and unity.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Swazi custom and norms, that time of the year has come, when the King chooses his bride and again, he has reportedly tested girls\u2019 virginity before choosing a wife for himself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141517\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/vir...jpg\" alt=\"vir..\" width=\"320\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/vir...jpg 320w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/vir..-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Reed Dance ceremony, known as Umhlanga reveals thousands of Swaziland\u2019s \u2018prettiest virgins\u2019 dancing topless for King Mswati III, every August, hoping to be his next wife.<\/p>\n<p>As the story goes, underage girls are being publicly checked to ascertain that their virginity was still intact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Daily Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common tradition in Swaziland (Swazi) permits the King, Mswati, to choose a new bride every year. According to reports by Talk Africa, it has been a long time tradition in Swaziland and isn\u2019t the first time this controversial issue is making it into the news. It will be recalled that in 2012, Dailymail reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":141516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-141515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}