KWANXAMALALA, South Africa — South Africa’s president formalized his marriage to his third wife during a traditional ceremony today amid media reports he plans to take a fourth bride later this year.

AS part of church life, we attend a number of funerals and have attended our first wedding celebration.Wedding arrangements are full of traditional ritual as well as the Christian service. The first ...

The bride was dressed in cowhide, and the groom looked splendid in a skirt made of lion tails. Most of the 3,000 or so guests were similarly attired, except for the maidens who weren’t required to ...

NONGOMA, South Africa — It was a day of glory revisited. The battlefields of past Zulu wars stretched far into the distance between the bronze-colored hills of Zululand, interrupted by an occasional ...