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Story Text:ZULU REED DANCE – KWANONGOMA, 12/09/2009
00:06:58: VARIOUS GIRLS PARADING IN THE STREETS OF NONGOMA
00:08:37: GROUP OF GIRLS PERFORMING A ZULU DANCE
00:09:46: INTERVIEW WITH (ZULU) BUSI GUMEDE
“We came here to embrace our virginity, our culture as the Zulu’s of being tested our virginity”
00:10:27: INTERVIEW WITH (ENGLISH/ZULU) BUHLE TSHABALALA
“This is very important to us because we are keeping our tradition as the Zulu’s that the young girls must respect her body by keeping her virginity until a certain time when she decides to get married. It’s important to keep your virginity especially in these days where there are diseases like AIDS”
00:12:39: VARIOUS GIRLS IN A CIRCLE SINGING
00:13:34: ONE OF THE GIRLS LEADING THE SONG WHILE VARIOUS GIRLS COME TO THE CIRCLE TO DANCE
00:28:31: VARIOUS GIRLS PARADING IN THE STREETS OF NONGOMA
00:31:31: POLICE OFFERS WALKING WITH VARIOUS GUESTS
00:31:46: VARIOUS PEOPLE GATHERED AT KWANONGOMA FOR REED DANCE
00:33:08: VARIOUS GIRLS PARADING IN THE STREETS OF NONGOMA CARRYING REEDS