Sadly died on her way to Jabulani Hospital. The ritual in Dududu was late for the woman involved, Nobuhle, who is 22, because her father, truck driver Mbeki Vezi, could not afford it before. The ruling, while settling the criminal case, is seen by many as the beginning of a battle for the future leadership of South Africa between Zulu traditionalists and Xhosa modernists. Against that backdrop Vezi did himself and his daughters proud, sacrificing three goats for the night's feasting, singing and dancing in a giant hut where ancestral spirits are believed to dwell. In the lead up to and during the ceremony older women teach initiates about sex and related matters including the prevention of HIV. You have to pay a fine to the old women that accompany you for them to buy a goat to cleanse the maidens that accompany you," said Thembelihle.
