| 1. | Lobola was once an insurance policy in case the marriage broke up.
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| 2. | The groom is not finished paying when he has paid the lobola.
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| 3. | But many surveys have found that there is still wide support for lobola.
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| 4. | Part of what makes weddings so expensive is the traditional bride payments, called lobola.
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| 5. | I think people today feel that when they pay lobola, they are buying you,
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| 6. | After gathering enough money to pay lobola, the couple married in the local Presbyterian Church.
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| 7. | We told him to pay lobola in the same manner others had done for other members of the family,
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| 8. | Once you start doing this work, our mothers-in-law say their son has paid lobola for nothing,
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| 9. | Such is the case with the Yoruba people and their bride-price rites and the Nguni people and their lobola practices.
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| 10. | Traditional marriages are sealed by payment of " lobola, " or bride price, by the husband's family.
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