F3 :: Chapter 20: Marriage

Call Number: F3
Title: Chapter 20: Marriage
Dates: 23 November 1974
Scope Content: Chapter content:
23 November 1974 Mbeki and Zanele Dlamini's wedding at the aristocratic Farnham Castle, Surrey, residence of Zanele's older sister Edith (married to Grenville-Grey), characterised by hybrid traditional African and Anglican rites; on the movement's regulations on marriage, Zanele a suitable bride; the Mbeki's in Lusaka; some background to Zanele's career and the role she fulfilled as first lady; Mbeki / Dlamini union compared to that of Govan Mbeki and Epainette Moerane and with that of Lenin and Krupskaya: a commitment to ideas is primary