"Keep bogadi level," Kgosi advises government

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Kgosi Mmirwa Malema of Bobirwa has asked the government to standardise lobola or bogadi - euphemistically referred to as 'bride price' in English - in Botswana.

He said this will prevent people from making lobola a 'get rich quick' scheme instead of concentrating on its sentimental value.

Malema said youth prefer not to marry nowadays because of the exhorbitant lobola. Lobola is described as a southern African custom by which a bridegroom's family makes a payment in cattle or cash to the bride's family shortly before marriage.

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"Keep bogadi level," Kgosi advises government

Kgosi Mmirwa Malema of Bobirwa has asked the government to standardise lobola or bogadi - euphemistically referred to as 'bride price' in English - in Botswana.