Posted on 12/26/2011 5:46:50 AM PST by Loyalist
Nelson Mandela's grandson will tie the knot with a third wife in a traditional ceremony Saturday despite a court ban on the wedding, according to a report.
All systems were go for chief Mandla Mandela's union with Swazi princess Mbali Makhathini at the Mvezo Royal Palace in rural Eastern Cape province, family spokesman Sidima Mnqanqeni told Sapa news agency.
"We are confident that there will be no disturbance and the marriage is on," said Mnqanqeni.
Mandla is a grandson of former South African president Nelson Mandela and also a member of parliament. He heads the Mandela family clan.
A South African court Thursday granted his first and currently only legal wife a ban on him marrying another woman, for the second time in seven months.
Tando Mabunu-Mandela successfully claimed her civil law union with Mandla Mandela blocks his marriage to customary wives.
South Africa allows a person to be married either to one spouse under civil law or several spouses under customary law. He cannot have wives under the different laws at the same time.
Mabunu-Mandela had her estranged husband's 2010 marriage to a woman from Reunion Island declared illegal in May this year on the same grounds.
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Enlightened, tolerant, inclusive post-apartheid South Africa for you.
They call it The Bloomberg Exception.
Ahhhh. Ha haaaaa! So take THAT!
One of the reasons why they will stay a third world country. That, tribalism and is some area’s, Islam.
Trash begets trash.
LLS
This marriage will be approved by the left wing group known as the National Organization of Women.
Black South Africa is more Apartheid than it was when whites predominantly ruled.
And not the first case of nuttiness from Black SA. Remember when they banned AIDS treatments because of some idiotic tribal based rules?
And just which “country: in Africa is NOT third world nation. or fourth or filth.
depraved
Are you from Daily Kos?
Some animals are more equal than others don’t you see?
“And just which “country: in Africa is NOT third world nation. or fourth or filth.”
The most accurate term, IMHO, is “Turd World”.
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