The mother of Mxoveni, Velabengasho and Mkhafuleni Khumalo. Her name was Qhamkile ka Makhoba Khumalo. She was an isamgoma, a diviner. Her top knot is a wig. Her bandolier of respect, isikhafulo, is worked in crochet. Her skirt is from blackened neat's leather.

Mkhafuleni with a frontal apron, isinene, from stripes of leopard skin and black calf skin, and with four bandoliers from glass beads. Cf. "Der einbeinige Gott", colour plate XIX)

In the foreground of Mkhafuleni's cattle pen, a decaying tree (with anti-lightning medicine on it); a mill for producing samp from maize. In the centre a large garden belonging to a kraal from the Mhlongo clan, with sweet potatoes and bananas)

Thembani, to the left, and the First wife of her brother-in-law Mkhafuleni Khumalo.(Her name was known to Laduma Madela)

Thembani from behind. The black shawl has a broad edge from white glass beads. Beneath it she wears a rear apron from black material with a very broad edge of white glass beads.

Portrait of Thembani Alexina Dlamini Khumalo. Below the topkot she wears a band white beads with some coloured ornaments, umnqwazi, a token of respect she ows to her in-laws.

After the religious ceremony the bridegroom changed into traditional skin dress, partly, however supplied by perlon plush and plastic (bandoliers and head dress). In his head ornament a coloured crane feather.

Laduma Madela accompanied the bride's party and blew his horn in order to ask permission for the bride's party to enter the bridegroom's kraal for the wedding.

In Laduma's kraal; from the goat killed in Bhidli's kraal, Mbhekeni and Bhidli brought the skin to Madela's kraal where they made an "ingubo yamadlozi" from it (they covering on the ancestor spirit), also called iminqwamba. It is the ceremonial cover of the chest of an isangoma.(Cf.