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Swazi King Accuses 12th Wife of Adultery November 26, 2011 CNN's Nadia Bilchik talks about the King of Swaziland, who recently evicted his 12th wife from the palace for adultery.

PATRICIA Dludlu, otherwise known as the sex-change teacher, yesterday caused drama at the Manzini Magistrate’s court when he asked it to adjourn owing to what he termed post stress disorder and that he needed counselling. This was just before Detective Constable Bongani Mbuyisa delivered his evidence in chief at the court before Magistrate Sindi Zwane as a fifth witness in his case of sexually molesting a pupil. Dludlu went public about a sex-change that never was. He claimed he changed his male organs for female ones. Previously he was known as Patrick and later changed to Patricia after the imaginary...

Phindile Nkambule, 17, was revealed to the public when she took part in a traditional Reed Dance ceremony, in which girls perform before the king. The announcement comes just weeks after Mswati III ended an official ban on sex for women under 18. The ban was aimed at curbing the spread of HIV/Aids. According to custom, King Mswati, 37, will marry Phindile Nkambule once she becomes pregnant. She is reported to have caught the king's eye during the main annual Reed Dance in late August, when tens of thousands of bare-breasted girls took part in a traditional rite of Spring.

Swaziland (Reuters) -- More than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to become the king of Swaziland's 13th wife Monday in a ceremony that critics say ill befits a country with the world's highest HIV/AIDS rate. King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, is due to attend the annual Reed Dance ceremony, which he has used since 1999 to pluck new brides from thousands of dancing girls dressed in little more than beads and traditional skirts. Clad in short beaded skirts and colorful tasseled scarves and carrying machetes, the girls sang tributes to the king while marching around the royal stadium...

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...