{"id":4301,"date":"2014-07-20T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T05:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2014-07-20T12:46:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T05:46:56","slug":"schoolboy-aged-nine-marries-62-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/schoolboy-aged-nine-marries-62-year-old-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolboy aged Nine marries 62-year-old Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine-year-old Saneie Masilela has become the world\u2019s youngest groom for the second time after remarrying the 62-year-old woman he tied the knot with last year.<\/p>\n

Dressed in a silvery tuxedo, baby-faced Saneie clutched the hand of mother-of-five Helen Shabangu \u2013 her children are aged between 28- and 38-years-old \u2013 as they repeated their vows a year on in front of 100 guests.<\/p>\n

The schoolboy says he did it to make the marriage \u2018official\u2019 but other villagers in Ximhungwe in Mpumalanga, South Africa describe it as \u201csickening\u201d.<\/p>\n

The ceremony \u2013 where guests shared a piece of cake \u2013 took place in front of Helen\u2019s long-term husband Alfred Shabangu, 66, who was there last year as well.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cMy kids and I are happy because we don\u2019t have a problem with her marrying the boy \u2013 and I don\u2019t care what other people say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both families claim the wedding is simply another \u2018ritual\u2019 after Saneie was told by his dead ancestors to wed last year and his parents forked out \u00a3500 for the bride and another \u00a31,000 for the ceremony…<\/p>\n

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Nine-year-old Saneie Masilela has become the world\u2019s youngest groom for the second time after remarrying the 62-year-old woman he tied the knot with last year. Dressed in a silvery tuxedo, baby-faced Saneie clutched the hand of mother-of-five Helen Shabangu \u2013 her children are aged between 28- and 38-years-old \u2013 as they repeated their vows a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,2993,257,254,4693,2994,2992,4709,881],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-helen-shabangu","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-told-by-his-dead-ancestors","tag-worlds-youngest-groom","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/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=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}