Aug 19, 2005 17:30
Damnit, how much HIV is gonna be flowing 'round Sunday night? Stupid king.
***(from da BBC)
"Swaziland's King Mswati III has ended a five-year sex ban he imposed on the kingdom's teenage girls a year early.
If propositioned by a man, the girls were supposed to throw the tassels outside his house and his family would have to pay a fine of a cow.
But many Swazis were unhappy that King Mswati's daughters were rarely seen wearing the tassels.
But our correspondent says that in rural areas, the tassels were common because the ban was enforced by local chiefs and some schools insisted that girls wore them to get a place.
"I have it in command from his majesty to order all the national flowers [virgins] to converge on Ludzidzini [royal palace] on Sunday so that they can drop the woollen tassels on Monday," said a spokeswoman for Swaziland's girls, Nkhonto Dlamini, in a broadcast on national radio."
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Damn, the fine was a COW?! That's some tribal shit right there. Oh well, at least everyone in Swazi is getting some action...