The iNcwala or First Fruits Ceremony in 1970
Young boys with the “lusekwane” shrubs that will be used to cover the “inhlambelo”, the sacred enclosure in the Royal “sibaya”, the cattle byre of Lobamba. They marched for hours, collected the lusekwane at night and returned at sunrise.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Mon Dec 14, 1970