Discriminatory apartheid-era black marriage law reversed in High Court
A historic judgment condemning a discriminatory civil marriage law, passed in the 1980s that potentially marginalised 400 000 black women, was handed down in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Friday. Sections of the Matrimonial Property Act 88 of 1984 were declared unconstitutional and invalid by Deputy Judge President Isaac Madondo. The matter was taken to the High Court by the Legal Resources Centre on behalf of Agnes Sithole […]
