More than 800 couples walked down the aisle on Easter Sunday in one of the biggest mass wedding ceremonies in the country since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The International Pentecost Holiness Church blesses polygamous unions.
Its mass nuptials take place three times a year – at Easter, in December, and also during the celebrations in September of the church’s founding in 1962.
Lebogile Mamatela, 38, a government employee who became the second wife to the father of her child on Sunday, said after the ceremony: “It’s a special day, I am very happy. I really, really appreciate this moment of being part of the Mahluku family. It’s a great feeling.”
Her new husband, Roto Mahluku, 40, joined the church in 1993 and married his first wife, Ditopa Mahluku, 16 years ago.…