Former president Thabo Mbeki and Mbuso Khoza share the same opinion that these days, lobola is being done for the wrong reasons, with people focussing on the money aspect instead of bringing two families together.
Former president Thabo Mbeki has slammed the modern practices of lobola and agreed with what heritage enthusiast, Mbuso Khoza , said last week about lobola being a scam.Former president Thabo Mbeki has weighed in on the lobola debate, slamming the modern day practice of lobola saying it has been corrupted in how it is being practiced.
Last week, Khoza slammed the modern day practice of lobola, describing it as a scam and blaming British South African colonial administrator Sir Theophilus Shepstone for imposing the practice of 11 cows as his creation, which he said had never been part of Zulu customs. He said Shepstone laid the foundations for the present day scam of the practice, whereby people focused more on the transactional aspect instead of bringing families together.
“iLobolo is the one that is tearing us down. There are people who can’t get married because of how expensive this iLobolo is.” “Today we are using money to buy one another in the name of iLobolo and it is in fact a contradiction to how emotions and how people chemically connect,” he said.
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