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Terms vs Lobola - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and lobola

is that terms is while lobola is (south africa) the dowry paid to a bride's family to secure a wedding among certain bantu peoples of south africa.

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  • (South Africa) The dowry paid to a bride's family to secure a wedding among certain Bantu peoples of South Africa.
  • *1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 38:
  • *:All the money he'd brought with him had gone into lobola – the dowry for a wife […].
  • * 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 213:
  • My sister Baliwe, who was older than Mabel, had been engaged to be married, and lobola had already been paid.