cultural practice
Award-winning director and producer Sihle Hlophe’s latest project, Lobola, A Bride’s True Price?, is a thought-provoking two-part documentary which seeks to explore the transactional, patriarchal and heteronormative elements of lobola.
Hlophe, who’s engaged, unpacks the cultural concept of lobola before making her own decision on whether to embrace the practice in her own journey.
“Putting the film together was a lot of hard work,” she says. “As a first-time feature-length documentary director, it was a struggle to raise the funds,
