In a sleepy village known as Slovo Park near Siyabuswa, villagers were torn with joy and surprise as they witnessed a rather strange wedding where, a mother and son exchanged wedding vows.
The son, a traditional healer from Siyabuswa in Mpumalanga, said he married his biological mother in a wedding ceremony to appease his ancestors. He now calls his mother “my wife”.
On Sunday more than 2000 people turned up to witness the wedding of Buti Mphethi , 28, to his mother Francinah Makunyane, 62.
Mphethi said that his forefathers had instructed him to pay lobola to his mother’s family before he could marry his wife, who stays separately from her own husband, Buti’s father.
Mphethi paid the lobola of two cows to his mother with a street value of R14 000.
The wedding was arranged and took place at his mother’s home in the same village on Saturday and finished at his home at the weekend.
Mphethi dropped out of his second year studies in sound engineering at the Tshwane University of Technology in 2003 to become a sangoma.
He felt it was a calling from his ancestors.
Mphethi said he had been married before, but it did not work out. His wife left him four years ago.
Mphethi said that his father William Mphethi was still alive, and had four wives. The father stays with the elder wife in Burgersfort, Limpopo.
He was confident that marrying his own mother had been in line with his culture.
Speaking to The New Age, the beaming bride, Makunyane, said she never imagined having a ‘white wedding’ because she was a grown up.
“I am now old enough and getting married was never in my mind. My son really did a good thing to marry me before he can marry his wife.
“This process is part of our culture. I am now a married woman because he represented his father,” she said, before bursting into tears of joy
http://thenewage.co.za/45516-1014-53-Ancestors_told_him_to_marry_his_mother
forefather
March 16, 2012 at 4:03 pm
We could have called them dogs but they are dressed like human beings
pulamasaka
March 16, 2012 at 4:06 pm
yaba..where is this world going to..?how do you undress your own mother & even **** her..?
Abomination,please lord come soon and rescue your people.
March 16, 2012 at 4:07 pm
BIG CURSE.
b.roxy
March 16, 2012 at 4:10 pm
fi puba.
roma
March 16, 2012 at 4:12 pm
such a culture should be abolished. its not fair to waste lobola on an old woman morover yo mother instead of saving for yo wife to be! this is satanism at its highest peak!
matako
March 16, 2012 at 4:17 pm
may god forgive them…its inhuman
Umumbulu
March 16, 2012 at 4:23 pm
We are getting into the world where the abnormal things become normal.
People will be lovers of themselves, than of God
believe7
March 16, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Abominations unthinkable!
Mozegeta
March 16, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Naumfwa umweso boyz girls. Impepo yafuluma bad and imishi shiminina straight.
useless
March 16, 2012 at 4:29 pm
cenze kuminila bamayi baceve mate mwaciona cipuba ici!!!
Sprange clouds
March 16, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Chikala alibe nzelu.
The Resistance (muna)
March 16, 2012 at 4:57 pm
The devils work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
one naks
March 16, 2012 at 5:01 pm
these deserve to be stoned, this is too much
DAIZY
March 16, 2012 at 5:02 pm
that old foll is mad ,nabena ba guy baletomba apobafumine.yo mather is your mather daity piople
Tione
March 16, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Imagine giving a blow job to your own son, this is madness.
Church
March 16, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Lord and God, allow them to repent b4 they die. It is the abomination of highest order.
purlchi
March 16, 2012 at 5:15 pm
dats insane total madnes u pipo disgust me yuuukk!!!!
this is amazin 4 sure sign of times
March 16, 2012 at 5:24 pm
signs of time… devil in progress
Didier Zokora
March 16, 2012 at 5:39 pm
He can even afford an erection honestly?
Didier Zokora
March 16, 2012 at 5:53 pm
He can even afford an erection honestly?
This guy is mad indeed
Daniel Chege
March 16, 2012 at 6:02 pm
If it is true that Buti Mphethi and his mother Francinah Makunyane got married for real and even plan to have sex, that is disgusting no matter what their fore fathers told them. That was the devil, not their fore father! Besides, doesn’t South Africa have laws against incest!
Of all the Billions of Women in the world, WHY MARRY YOUR MOTHER ???
God Forbid.
musonda222
March 16, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Its said married. meaning to be together for ever with his mother. No sex is mentioned that he is going to sleep with his mother, or did I read that wrongly?
Independent Observer
March 16, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Some of these weird events really beats my imagination, anyway these are signs of times pointing to the end of the world.I just have to earnestly recommit myself to the lord.
Gifted
March 16, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Sodom and gomora. Lets stand film in christ, He’s soon coming.
Brown Eyes
March 16, 2012 at 6:54 pm
IFYABUPUBA FYE!
TWO OF US
March 16, 2012 at 7:38 pm
umupamba ubukulu ,mwe Lesa iseni mutulubule kuli cimwasa kabinga!
End have come
March 16, 2012 at 7:52 pm
I said the “END HAVE COME”
abyei
March 16, 2012 at 8:08 pm
this is unbeleavable,unimaginable.
WESTLIFE
March 16, 2012 at 8:08 pm
atase ububi
Mwewa
March 16, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Ok seriously this is total madness i mean with all the tyt boody en tits in SA 2 go 4 yo mother.dude get yo shit 2getha
1 sabala
March 16, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Bushe mafi yakwisa aya?? Atase ifyabupuba fye. Some of these traditions iyo
Mustafa
March 16, 2012 at 9:01 pm
awe this issue is very sensitive i cant make any comment.
cruz.com
March 16, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Dis brother realy is a ************….
R
March 16, 2012 at 9:40 pm
My lord where is this world going.since he is a sangoma to him is normal but let God forgive them and show them your greatness
William Shakespere
March 16, 2012 at 11:05 pm
i hear that last year such a case was recorded in northen province, watch out for the bembas.
Mother far car
March 16, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Ths man z a lil mother far car ’cause he owez far key hz far king mother… wat a HELL!!!
Nandibo Mpoosepo
March 17, 2012 at 2:04 am
Believe it or not, I had this female dog which could never ever let its issues mate with it! If a ***** has the sense not to do that, where are the senses of this old woman? Balibalowa, nendoshi yalowele yalifwa!
Mark
March 17, 2012 at 5:00 am
They are both consenting adults. As disgusting as it my seem for most, the government shouldn’t get involved. Besides,assuming this is a non-platonic mother-son relationship, considering the mother’s age, it’s highly doubtful a sexual relationship between them will result in the birth of a child.
From a western perspective, people as individuals may have the right to shun them for their actions; however, in secular governments that separate religion from state affairs, as far as the law is concerned, they should go unpunished. In free countries, governments shouldn’t have the right to stick their noses in the bedrooms and/or private lives of consenting adults.
Momin Zed
March 17, 2012 at 5:42 am
All these comments have no use. Pa Bwato commented it in the most unique way and it delivers the message like a sucker punch… MOTHER F.UC.KER! Absolute brilliance!
Momin Zed
March 17, 2012 at 5:45 am
Did u know that this was common in the Sassanis Empire, also known as the Persian Empire, some 1400 years ago?
fyonse
March 17, 2012 at 6:55 am
Unworried bachelor, I think u ar right. Pipo b4 u condemn this act. Ask yoselves this quetion. Wht is they culture requre? Let me go to my point.read paragraph 13. It says”my son really did a good thing to marry me before he can marry his wife..” I think it is not which is knwn by evry1. Ba temfweko plz dug more on this especially on these pipo’s culture, it is only symbolic not actual married
james mbonde
March 17, 2012 at 7:11 am
Darlie,,,open ur legs nice am not enjoying this sex,darlie today I want a dog style,darlie give me again,,,,these are said to your lover not your own mum…
Seed Inspector
March 17, 2012 at 7:30 am
This is total craziness and indeed madness. Anyway I’m not surprised because of what I see on south African channels
SHARP SHOOTER
March 17, 2012 at 7:50 am
Bachelor is right you people. Its just symbolic to give his mother a name. And its tradition for these people. So now he is going to get married to a woman he can sleep with. But will never consummate the mariege with his mother.
Dr Kasebanya
March 17, 2012 at 8:28 am
It’s not a sexual marriage, you perverts!
plunderer
March 17, 2012 at 10:52 am
MULEKENI FYE ALENYENGA KAILI BANYINA BALIKWATA ICHINYO.SO UMWANA KUMWITA ATI SHANI. BROTHERSON!!EEEEESSHHHHHHHHHHH……..
kayode
March 17, 2012 at 11:56 am
The entire families are operating under terrible generational curses – oh what a pity!!!
WALKING RAZOR
March 17, 2012 at 12:11 pm
atase!!1
kekeke
March 17, 2012 at 12:20 pm
So…wat is this ponyo ponyo’s children to him self. MY WORD
thuo
March 17, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Why crime aganist the worse.