1. COURTSHIP💕💕CUSTOMS OF THE NDEBELE PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE 🇿🇼 Umnxeba 🧵 In the ancient days, Ndebele men practiced elaborate processes to court lovers. The proposals and courting often painstakingly took months or even years to before a young lady could agree.

2. Love proposals were for marriage and there were no ordinary love relationships with no clear sense of purpose or direction. Young people who were only interested in multiple relationships for sexual pleasure were condemned as amabele endlela/sorghum that grows by the wayside.

3. The entire courtship process rested on the young man who had to identify a potential partner. The first stage was the investigative stage where after spotting the lady he had to make further enquires before making any move.

4. Enquiries involved her personal name and character, personal likes and interests. The most important was her clan and its full history. After getting the information about her clan he had a duty to verify with his personal friends, sisters, uncles and aunts.

5. The last stage was to make final enquiries at the village where the girl came from. He had to ask about her family, relatives & how they were viewed by the entire community. All these processes ensured that he did not marry into the wrong family or against his family wishes.

6. However, it must be noted that in the olden days people also married their relatives, mostly cousins at a permissible degree. Arranged marriages were also done so as to circulate wealth and power within the royal aristocratic clans. We will do a separate thread on this.

7. After confirming the suitability of the girl, the courtship process would then begin. This was a thorough and well choreographed process with a lot of poetry involved. The courtship was by default designed to take a long time.

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