Posted on 02/02/2005 11:10:51 AM PST by zoobee
Mbabane - Swaziland's King Mswati III has picked a 17-year-old schoolgirl as his new fiancée and she will be introduced to the public as his 13th bride-to-be once she passes an HIV test, said royal sources on Monday. Less than five months after picking 16-year-old Nothando Dube as his 12th bride-to-be, the 36-year-old Mswati has now chosen Colile Nosiphe Magagula, known as Titi, as his next fiancée.
She will be "unveiled" once she passes an HIV test and once she gets royal blessings from the Queen Mother Ntombi Thwala of Swaziland, where close to 40% of the population is living with HIV and Aids.
The "unveiling" means that she will be officially introduced to the public as his fiancée.
"There is a lady that is currently undergoing certain rituals that include an HIV test and if she passes that test she would be unveiled," a royal source said. Swaziland has the world's highest per-capita rate of HIV infection at 38.8% in the kingdom of 1.1 million people, according to United Nations estimates.
Mswati has 11 official wives and two fiancées, including Magagula, and 24 children.
The king is apparently trying to fill vacancies left by two of his wives who left Swaziland in June after falling out of favour with the royal household. Mswati, a polygamist who is know as "Ngweyama" or the lion, has ruled the mountainous kingdom wedged between South Africa and Mozambique since 1986, when he acceded to the throne at the age of 18.
His father, King Sobhuza II, led the country to independence from Britain in 1968, and died at the age of 82 in 1982 with at least 70 wives.
Do they have a trailer park where Clinton could find his next wife?
It's a helluva place where an HIV test is just another 'ritual.'
That was the nicest thing I could post here. :-)
Why on Earth would any man want 12 mother-in-laws?
Nothing could be worth that fate.
Mswati has 11 official wives and two fiancées, including Magagula, and 24 children.
Hmmmm, call me silly, but there just may be a connection there....
The king sleeps with as many women as he likes, and when he gets tired of them he finds another teenager to pork. Gee, I wonder if the men living in Swaziland want to be like the king? Oh wait, lets just look at the incidence of STD's and see....... 38.8% have HIV! Keep moving... nothing to see here... no connection exists... look the other way please...
No doubt he is quite a looker. Let me guess. He doesn't believe in affairs because they are immoral.
Sounds like he is trying to catch up with dear old dads numbers.
However, it is nice to know that a wife can leave the country if she 'falls out of favor'. (Means she pisses his Mama off.)
great minds thnk alike!
I had a devil of a time googling the graphic.
Now I know why Newt has dual US-Swaziland citizenship!
BTW spell check hates Ezulwini!
And here I thought the punishment for bigamy was just 2 wives.
It is good to be the king!
"Now I know why Newt has dual US-Swaziland citizenship!"
Without checking your profile, I will bet you are from a blue state.
He has 13 wives and couple of slices on the side and he has THEM tested.... What if he has HIV?
Whatever?
I don't suppose that the king has to have an HIV test.
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It's good to be the King! 