12. The one month rule is itself suggestive of the interwoven nature of fertility and sexuality. Testimony of Ndukwana in Stuart Archive,Vol.4., 300; 353. The quote is from page 300. For an earlier period see Fynn's diary (1986: 295) recorded in the first half of the 19th century, which describes how men who visited a kraal were allowed to hlobonga with available girls "The plan is repeated as often as strangers make their appearance, so that one girl may have 100 sweethearts, as also a man the same".