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PONDO (amaMpondo, amaMpondimise;
Xhosa, Pondoland, South Africa)
Index → Africa→ South
Africa → Xhosa→ Pondo
Featured: Zulu, Basuto, Swasi, Bovale, Pedi, Lemba, Xhosa, Xesibe, Tshidi Barolong, Venda, Fingo, Lobedu, Pondo; ®!Xo
Largely regarded as Xhosa as a subgroup of the larger Xhosa-speaking
peoples of what is now the Eastern Cape. “When a girl reaches the age of
puberty, she is secluded in a hut of her fathers "kraal" and stays
there up to three months, during which time she is fattened, her complexion
is treated, and she is instructed in what is expected of a wife. Most girls
marry between sixteen and eighteen. The groom's family is expected to hand
over a number of cattle to her father. She can't marry until him or his
family have acquired the necessary cattle, either as payment for labor or for
a dowry for his people”[1].
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Sept 2004
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