Nomcebo Zuma, the daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma, has fled her husband, King of Eswatini, Mswati III, after the king reportedly stopped sleeping with her three months into their union.
The trip by King Mswati of Eswatini, on which he is accompanied by his 16th wife, newly married Nomcebo Zuma, the daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma, will come at a hefty cost to citizens of the kingdom, gobbling up over R200m (US$11m).
With the secret out of the bag that he meant to marry his erstwhile friend’s daughter, the monarch unveiled her as his liphovela – an official girlfriend – last week, making her first public appearance in eSwatini along with one of the monarch’s 15 wives.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma allegedly stormed out of lobola negotiations when a delegation of eSwatini royals came to ask for his 21-year-old daughter Nomcebo’s hand in marriage on behalf of his 56-year-old friend King Mswati III.
The government of Eswatini has angrily dismissed as fake news reports that King Mswati III was critically ill and had been hospitalised after struggling...
