LUCWANINGO LOLUNZULU LOLUMAYELANA NEKUBALULEKA ...

Sitsembu sendvodza siyahloniphana. Sibitana ngabodzadze. Kulokunye siye
sibitane ngetibongo taso. Bafati basesitsenjini baye babitane ngemagama
ebantfwababo labadzala. Kulesinye sikhatsi baye babitane ngeligama
lemntfwana wemfana lokhona lapha ekhaya. BoRadcliffe-Brown na Forde
(1975:94) batsi:
Co-wives call each other dzadze of fetu (sister), but
usually speak of each by their different clan names as
mother ofso and so.
Esiveni semaSwati nangabe indvodza inesitsembu ibukeka iyindvodza sibili,
ngisho nome ikhuluma kuyevakala kutsi itsini kantsi umfati ubonakala
ngekutsi atale bantfwana. Lombono ufakazela boRadcliffe-Brown na Forde
(1975:89) nabatsi :
Swazi say," polygamy(isithembu) is the nature of man,
while the nature ofwoman is satisfied through children.
EmaSwati kuteka sitsembu awakutsatseli nje emoyeni kepha akutsatsa
njengelisiko kutsi uma uyindvodza kumele ube naso, njengobe nayo
ingwenyama leseyakhotsama Sobhuza 11 yayinesitsembu lesikhulu kakhulu.
Kunotsa kwengwenyama kubonakala ngebantfwana nebafati labanyenti.
Lombono Ufakazelwa boRadcliffe-Brown na Forde (1975:89) nabatsi:
Wives and children are regarded as a man's greatest
assets and polygymy is the ambition of the tribes man,
an ambition most frequently achieved by aristocrats and
wealthy elderly commoners. The king is expected to take
more wives than any of his subject, and the present
king, who was born in 1902 has more than forty wives.
Kulolokucaphuniwe kuneliphutsa ngemnyaka wekutalwa kweNgwenyama
Sobhuza 11. Sobhuza IIlowatalwa ngemnyaka wa-1899 hhayi 1902. Sitsembu
emaSwati ayasinakekela futsi asikhonte kakhulu ngendlela yekutsi indvodza
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