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A Nine-Year-Old Boy Has Remarried A 62-Year-Old Woman In South Africa

By totalfamilylife.com
Family & Parenting wedding
JUL 21, 2014 LISTEN
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This is Saneie Masilela and his bride, Helen Shabangu, at their second ritual marriage ceremony in Kildare Village, Mpumalanga, South Africa.

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At nine-years-old, Saneie is the world's youngest groom. Helen is a 62-year-old married mother of five. She works at a recycling plant.

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A Nine-Year-Old Boy Has Remarried A 62-Year-Old Woman In South Africa-The couple originally married in 2013 after Saneie claimed that his dead ancestors had instructed him to do so. They then repeated their vows with a second ceremony this year, according to local wedding tradition.

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Other villagers have called the wedding “sickening”, but Saneie's mother, Patience, doesn't have a problem with it: “I know it's what the ancestors wanted. If we hadn't done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family.”

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“People keep asking will they live together, sleep together, have babies, but I keep telling them that after the wedding everything went back to normal – nothing changed. All this ceremony is for making ancestors happy. We are playing.”

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“I'm happy that I married Helen – but I will go to school and study hard,” Saneie said in a press release. “When I'm older I will marry a lady my own age.”

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Helen Shabangu's husband of 30 years, Alfred, attended both wedding ceremonies. He said, “My kids and I are happy because we don't have a problem with her marrying the boy – and I don't care what other people say.”

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