Answer to Question #318024 in Law for Rocky

Question

Discuss the ceremony you have attended, are there similarities or differences from your Task 1 research. Relate and elaborate. How has the ceremony evolved, is it geographical or the people involved that have made the decision to change the ceremony.

Using the following guidelines:

From your own culture, what does it mean to you, what is expected?

Choose One:

Marriage:

In the traditional African way, a young man would not personally approach his prospective father-in-law and ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage – it would be interpreted as disrespect. A young man would make his intentions known to his family and the family would approach the prospective in-laws on his behalf. Negotiations go in phases and there are specific people who must be included in specific delegations. In most clans of the Northern Sotho, for instance, malome/ umalume must be part of the delegation that takes magadi/ ilobola to the lady’s family.