BROKEN ROMANCE
ZULU GIRL DEFILES KRAAL. APPEAL AGAINST CHIEF’S DECISION. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. CAPETOWN, August 26. Broken romance, old tribal customs and a clay pot bath will shortly engage the attention of the Natal Court. A young Zulu woman is appealing to it against the decision of the chief of her tribe, who lias lined her “ one beast or £5.” She was engaged to the chief’s son and, when he jilted her, she entered his kraal at noon, bathed in a clay pot and then smashed the pot. The chief found her. guilty of defiling the kraal by “ bespattering it with water which had come into contact with her body."
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19665, 27 August 1935, Page 10
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112BROKEN ROMANCE Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19665, 27 August 1935, Page 10
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