THE cultural practice of ‘ukuthwala’ is often used to label the abduction, rape or forced marriage of young girls to older men as ‘tradition’. Reports are widely received from local teachers and ...

Babalwa Ntutu’s* parents thought their prayers had been answered. They were looking forward to spending Christmas Day with their daughter — even if it was at her hospital bedside. But, on Tuesday last ...

Johannesburg - A man who practised ukuthwala many years ago is still happily married, a briefing by the Commission for the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Cultural, Religious, and Linguistic ...

University of Cape Town provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Ukuthwala is a term in Nguni languages which has various meanings. It can refer to ways (including abduction) of ...

THE Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (the CRL Rights Commission) yesterday called on ...

Johannesburg - The practice of ukuthwala needs to stop, a woman who was abducted, forced into marriage and raped, said in Johannesburg on Thursday. "I'm here to say, put an end to it. Only bad things ...

Johannesburg - As part of 16 days of activism for no violence against women and children campaign, the Salvation Army has called for an end to the cultural practice of ukuthwala in South Africa. The ...

More than 90,000 South African girls between the ages of 12 and 17 were either married, divorced, separated, widowed or living with a partner as husband and wife in 2016. The latter formed the ...

Customary practices such as ukuthwala should not be used as criminal defence in cases of rape and abuse of women and children. This is the message that rights lobby groups hope will reach many rural ...

“Back home in the Eastern Cape, ukuthwala is normal and has always been, so long as one has the means to pay lobola and if the girl’s family consent to have her married,” a man at the Clare Estate ...

Ukuthwala is a term in Nguni languages which has various meanings. It can refer to ways (including abduction) of making a customary marriage happen quickly. South Africa has a varied cultural make-up, ...

Just over a decade ago in South Africa, a flurry of media reports surfaced about a customary practice known as ukuthwala. The reports described a rise in ukuthwala characterised by the kidnapping, ...