9歲男童娶62歲妻子 爲圓祖父遺願

Sanele Masilela is now nine and his wife, Helen Shabangu, is 62 years old.
馬西萊拉現年9歲，他的妻子夏班固62歲。

Sanele, a Grade 4 pupil, claimed to have been having a series of visions of his late grandfather, which were interpreted as a sign that his grandfather, Busy Masilela, who never married, wanted Sanele to do so on his behalf.
馬西萊拉是一名4年級的小學生，他聲稱老是看見已經去世的祖父，認爲這是因爲祖父生前沒有結婚，希望馬西萊拉能夠爲他結一次婚。

Sanele's mother, Patience Masilela, said the wedding attracted much international media interest last year. She said people who were not familiar with the ritual thought the couple were living together as husband and wife.
馬西萊拉的母親說去年的婚禮吸引了國際媒體的大量注意。她表示那些對當地傳統並不熟悉的人以爲新郎新娘會像夫妻一樣一起生活。

Last year's Valentine's Day wedding had all the elements of a real one: R7000 lobolo was paid for Shabangu, who wore a white wedding gown, and they kissed before exchanging rings and vows. The ceremony, it was said at the time, was not binding but merely a ritual to appease the ancestors.
去年情人節的婚禮有着真實婚禮的一切要素：付給夏班固的7000蘭特（南非貨幣單位）聘禮，夏班固穿上白色的婚紗，他們交換戒指和誓詞，然後接吻。這個儀式是對先人的告慰，而非對新人的約束。

Since that white wedding, the couple have returned to their normal lives - Sanele being just a schoolboy and his spouse a working woman.
婚禮後，這對新人回到了他們的正常生活中去——馬西萊拉上學，夏班固上班。

Before yesterday, they had not seen one another since November.
去年11月後，他們再未見過彼此，直到昨天。

Yesterday's wedding was held to introduce the groom to the bride's family in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga.
昨天舉行的婚禮是爲了將新郎介紹給居住在布希巴克裏奇的新娘家庭。

According to an agreement between the two families, much of last year's formal wedding needed to be repeated before the couple changed into traditional gear for the second part of the ceremony.
根據2個家庭的協議，在新郎新娘換上傳統服裝進行儀式的第二部分之前，去年舉行的正式婚禮中的很大一部分需要再進行一次。

Shabangu's real husband, Abel Shabangu, was among the men who came to help to put up a tent and three gazebos. He also bought a three-tier wedding cake.
夏班固真正的丈夫，阿貝夏班固也在前來幫忙的男人中。他們搭起了1座帳篷和3個露臺。阿貝·夏班固還買了一個3層的結婚蛋糕。

"I'm here to support my wife. We all want this day to go well. Our children couldn't come, but they also wish us well today," said Abel.
阿貝說：“我是來支持我的妻子的。我們都希望今天能夠順利。我們的孩子來不了，但是他們都祝我們能度過愉快的一天。”