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