Note 131 — VII.
Reading edition
To lobola is to deliver to a girl's father the cattle or other property required by custom to be so handed over as part of the marriage settlement, viz. lobolo. These cattle are not purchase price or barter, but merely consideration or compensation for loss of the girl's services, as well as a visible guarantee of intention on the part of the bridegroom to treat his wife at all times fairly and justly under the Zulu system of life.