{"id":9954,"date":"2012-04-15T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T14:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/south-african-president-zuma-to-marry-for-sixth-time\/"},"modified":"2012-04-15T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T14:14:25","slug":"south-african-president-zuma-to-marry-for-sixth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-african-president-zuma-to-marry-for-sixth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"South African President Zuma to marry for sixth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 15<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African President<br \/>\nJacob Zuma, who turned 70 last week, will marry for the sixth<br \/>\ntime next weekend when he takes his long-time fianc\u00e9e, Bongi<br \/>\nNgema, as his fourth current wife, his spokesman said on Sunday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Polygamy forms part of Zulu culture and is legal in South<br \/>\nAfrica, and Zuma, a Zulu traditionalist, has 21 children,<br \/>\naccording to the presidency website.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Jacob Zuma will be formalising his relationship<br \/>\nwith his fianc\u00e9e by having a private traditional ceremony this<br \/>\ncoming weekend,&#8221; said Zuma&#8217;s spokesman, Mac Maharaj.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will take place in Nkandla in KwaZulu Natal<br \/>\nprovince, Maharaj said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zuma is also married to Sizakele Zuma, Nompumelelo<br \/>\nNtuli-Zuma and Tobeka Madiba-Zuma. He was previously married to<br \/>\nHome Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and to Kate<br \/>\nMantsho-Zuma who committed suicide in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For official events, Zuma usually takes one wife on a<br \/>\nrotating basis to serve as first lady.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda; Editing by Tim Pearce)<\/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 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South African President Jacob Zuma, who turned 70 last week, will marry for the sixth time next weekend when he takes his long-time fianc\u00e9e, Bongi Ngema, as his fourth current wife, his spokesman said on Sunday. Polygamy forms part of Zulu culture and is legal in South Africa, and Zuma, [&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-9954","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\/9954","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=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}