{"id":10144,"date":"2012-04-21T04:21:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T02:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/south-african-president-zuma-marries-for-sixth-time\/"},"modified":"2012-04-21T04:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T02:21:51","slug":"south-african-president-zuma-marries-for-sixth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-african-president-zuma-marries-for-sixth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"South African President Zuma marries for sixth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 20<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s polygamous<br \/>\nPresident Jacob Zuma married for the sixth time on Friday,<br \/>\ntaking his long-time girlfriend Bongi Ngema as his newest bride<br \/>\nand fourth current wife in a private ceremony at his rural home.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ngema, an activist and former information technology worker,<br \/>\nis well known in South Africa and has already accompanied the<br \/>\npresident on foreign visits.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony raised few eyebrows in a country where polygamy<br \/>\nis legal and an integral part of Zuma&#8217;s Zulu culture.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two had a traditional Zulu wedding and &#8220;the bride and<br \/>\ngroom later participated in the traditional competitive<br \/>\ncelebratory dance,&#8221; the presidency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zuma has 21 children, including a seven-year-old son with<br \/>\nNgema.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The president is also married to Sizakele Zuma, Nompumelelo<br \/>\nNtuli-Zuma and Tobeka Madiba-Zuma. They all attended the<br \/>\nceremony.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His marriage to Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma<br \/>\nended in divorce. Another wife Kate Mantsho-Zuma committed<br \/>\nsuicide in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no official position of First Lady in South Africa.<br \/>\nThe presidency said none of the wives had a constitutional role<br \/>\nor received any state funds.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Andrew Heavens)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 20 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s polygamous President Jacob Zuma married for the sixth time on Friday, taking his long-time girlfriend Bongi Ngema as his newest bride and fourth current wife in a private ceremony at his rural home. Ngema, an activist and former information technology worker, is well known in South Africa and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}