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Developments:
Mtubatuba, South Africa: Marriage is an expensive business in Zululand. A prospective husband has to pay a dowry of eleven cows (or their equivalent in radios and bicycles etc) to his bride's family. The wedding, too, is beyond the budget of many young grooms. Nearly half of forty-something men and women in the Hlabisa district near Mtubatuba, therefore, have never been married. Instead, people engage in non-marital relationships - 3 in 5 women between the ages of 18 and 24 have a regular partner. Men start slightly later - only a third of men in that age group have regular partners (1 in 8 has a casual partner) - but catch up in their late twenties.
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