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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>Thousands of maidens delivered umhlanga and danced before His Majesty King Mswati at Ludzidzini Palace on Sunday as part of the ongoing Umhlanga Reed Dance ceremony.<\/b><\/p>\n

The ceremony was attended by among others, young girls from KwaZulu Natal and other Provinces in South Africa who shared similar ceremonies and cultural practices with Swazis.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Eswatini<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Eswatini. Thousands of maidens delivered umhlanga and danced before His Majesty King Mswati at Ludzidzini Palace on Sunday as part of the ongoing Umhlanga Reed Dance ceremony. The ceremony was attended by among others, young girls from KwaZulu Natal and other Provinces in South Africa who shared similar ceremonies and cultural practices with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,13,16],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-12261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-social","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"\nThousands of maidens delivered umhlanga,danced before King Mswati - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thousands of maidens delivered umhlanga and danced before His Majesty King Mswati at Ludzidzini Palace on Sunday as p ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/thousands-of-maidens-delivered-umhlangadanced-before-king-mswati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thousands of maidens delivered umhlanga,danced before King Mswati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thousands of maidens delivered umhlanga and danced before His Majesty King Mswati at Ludzidzini Palace on Sunday as p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/thousands-of-maidens-delivered-umhlangadanced-before-king-mswati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-05T10:05:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-05T11:44:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_25.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"721\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"606\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/thousands-of-maidens-delivered-umhlangadanced-before-king-mswati#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/thousands-of-maidens-delivered-umhlangadanced-before-king-mswati\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Thousands of maidens delivered umhlanga,danced before King Mswati\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-05T10:05:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-05T11:44:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/thousands-of-maidens-delivered-umhlangadanced-before-king-mswati\"},\"wordCount\":74,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/thousands-of-maidens-delivered-umhlangadanced-before-king-mswati#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_25.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"Social\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/thousands-of-maidens-delivered-umhlangadanced-before-king-mswati#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/thousands-of-maidens-delivered-umhlangadanced-before-king-mswati\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/thousands-of-maidens-delivered-umhlangadanced-before-king-mswati\",\"name\":\"Thousands of maidens delivered umhlanga,danced before King Mswati - 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