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The Umhlanga (Reed Dance) is a traditional dance where twenty to thirty thousand of Swaziland's maidens are supposed to congregate and dance for the king (currently Mswati III). The young women, aged between about four and twenty, wear beads, short skirts and long tassels which denote their betrothenhood, and many are bare-breasted. The maidens are supposed to be virgins, but in practice many are simply young, unmarried women without children.

The king is allowed to pick one of the maidens to be his bride. On September 6, 2004, he chose a sixteen year old reed dance participant and finalist from Miss Teenage Swaziland as a fiancée, to join his eleven wives and one other fiancée.

The girls do not gather to dance for the king but cut reed for the Queen Mothers homestad and on thelast day of the reed dance they dance for the Queen and the king joins in the dance. "Umhlanga" is also the name given to the northern portion of the Durban Metropolitan Area, where much of the city's new commercial and residential growth has been focused in recent years. It is sometimes referred to as "the Sandton of Durban."

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