Remember Sanele Masilela, the Nine years old boy that married a 62 years old woman

Sanele Masilela tied the knot with Helen Shabangu, who is already married and a mother-of-five. The boy, from Tshwane, South Africa, said he had been told by his dead ancestors to wed and his family, fearing divine retribution, forked out for a wedding. They paid £500 for the bride and a further £1,000 for the big day, which was organised in just two months. Dressed in a bow tie and tiny silver suit, little Sanele, the youngest of five children, exchanged rings in front of 100 guests and even puckered up for a kiss.





It’s already shocked the community but the family has defended the ceremony, saying it was just a ritual and not legally binding.Sanele’s 46-year-old mum, Patience Masilela said: ‘This is the first time this has happened in the family.’Sanele is named after his grandfather, who was never had a white wedding before he died so asked Sanele to get married. He chose Helen because he loves her.’By doing this we made the ancestors happy.





At an age when most boys would be the ring bearer at a wedding, South African 9-year-old Sanele Masilela was the one walking down the aisle … to marry a 62-year-old woman for the second time.


A video from the U.K.-based Barcroft Media shows Masilela, dressed in a silver tuxedo, going through the wedding ceremony with mother-of-five Helen Shabangu in Bushbuckridge, South Africa.






According to the South African Sunday Times

, both families claim the wedding is simply a "ritual" after Sanele said he was told by his dead ancestors to wed last year.


Masilela and Shabangu originally wed in a similar 2013 ceremony, but South African tradition calls for a second ceremony in order to make the union official.




The Mirror reports

villagers described the ceremony as "sickening," but Sanele's family says the union is just a ritual and not legally binding. Masilela and Shabangu do not live together.


Shabangu is already married. Abel Shabangu, 66, attended both ceremonies.






"My kids and I are happy because we don’t have a problem with her marrying the boy," the Mirror was quoted

Alfred as saying. "I don’t care what other people say."


According to the Mirror, Masilela says he wants to marry a bride his own age when he grows up.