The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949), one of the first apartheid laws, forbade marriage between White and non-White people in South Africa.
Journal of Southern African StudiesButton, K., Moore, E., & C. Himonga. 2016. South Africa's system of dispute resolution forums: The role of the family and the state in customary marriage dissolution. Journal of Southern African Studies, 42(2): 299-316....
South African marriages arelegally valid in almost every country inthe world. ... The marriage officer who registers a foreign marriage with the Department of Home Affairs can apply for an unabridged marriage certificate, which is stamped 'Apostille' by the High Court. What happens when a foreign...
A ground-breaking judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court on 1 December 2005 gave parliament 1 year within which to promulgate legislation that facilitated same-sex marriage in South Africa. In response, the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006 came into operation on 30 November 2006. This Act ...
South Africa Act, act of 1909 that unified the British colonies of the Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange River and thereby established the Union of South Africa. It was the work of white delegates—indigenous Black African, Coloured, and Asian re
Oliver Tambo was the president of the South African black-nationalist African National Congress (ANC) between 1967 and 1991. He spent more than 30 years in exile (1960–90). Tambo was born in a Transkei village of subsistence farmers. He attended Anglica
Language is fluid, especially in South Africa. Our languages are and have been for centuries in aconstant swirl, mixed by work, migration, education, urbanisation, the places we live, friendship and marriage. Because of this, South Africans are a code-switching people. “Code switching” simply...
Customary law of intestate succession in many African societies including Nigeria, deny females of the right to succession. One explanation for this perspective is the fear that females on marriage will take the family property outside t... E. Nwogugu 被引量: 0发表: 2014年 加载更多来源...
the way. I simply can’t wrap my head around this rationalization. Where I come from, if a spouse cheats, it is expected that the couple will either get divorced or go into some serious marriage counseling. It is not simply tolerated, or at least not by those who have any self-respect...
One of the first acts that the National Party passed in 1949 at the start of the Apartheid regime was the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, which outlawed marriage between people of different races. To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects...