The Culture & Belief of KwaZulu Allows The Act of Polygamy. Find Out More...

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Polygamy is also in Zulu culture as it is in other cultures like N Sotho, Islam and Swazi culture. KwaZulu the king was and is still able to take more than 5 wives to bare him children.

Zulu families use to choose a husband for the women, in most situations the girl is chosen to marry an older guy while she is still young, age16 and 45 and only to find that she is the 5th wife to husband.

The families are the ones who decide on the Lobola and everything, they just tell the girl about the final arrangements of the marriage and the day she will be going to live with the husband.

Other reasons why the Zulu people take more than two wives is because a women without children is looked down and loses her position of being a wife in a clan.

Now the husband forced to marry another wife who will bare him children, and if the wife doesn't bare sons the husband takes another wife to bare sons for him in order to continue the family name.