{"id":229722,"date":"2026-04-07T02:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chief-dakamela-of-nkayi-gets-virgin-wife-as-present-from-south-african-royal-family\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:29:34","slug":"zimbabwe-chief-dakamela-of-nkayi-gets-virgin-wife-as-present-from-south-african-royal-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chief-dakamela-of-nkayi-gets-virgin-wife-as-present-from-south-african-royal-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chief Dakamela of Nkayi Gets Virgin Wife As Present From South African Royal Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">CHIEF Mbusi Dakamela (29), was Saturday presented with a virgin wife by South Africa&#8217;s Manala Royal Family as a present and cultural symbol at his Imiklomelo KaDakamela Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Manala Royal Family of Mpumalanga province is a prominent South African royal house within the Southern Ndebele nation led by King Makhosoke Mabhena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Princess Andile Manala, who was presented as <em>itshitshi\/intombi\/<\/em>young unmarried maiden, takes the role of bachelor Chief Dakamela&#8217;s great wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604060073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHIEF Mbusi Dakamela (29), was Saturday presented with a virgin wife by South Africa&#8217;s Manala Royal Family as a present and cultural symbol at his Imiklomelo KaDakamela Festival. The Manala Royal Family of Mpumalanga province is a prominent South African royal house within the Southern Ndebele nation led by King Makhosoke Mabhena. Princess Andile Manala, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,4380,6510,54106,5203,257,33133,12358,6577,5069,254,41461,8963,4686,421],"class_list":["post-229722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-chief","tag-dakamela","tag-family","tag-news","tag-nkayi","tag-present","tag-royal","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-virgin","tag-wife","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}