Church Wedding in the Eastern Cape, 1920.
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Before colonialism black South Africans viewed sex and morality very differently than today.
The Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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South African customary law should be understood from the perspective of dissonance between the past and the present.
A Zulu household, from an 1895 book called The Colony of Natal: An Official Illustrated Handbook and Railway Guide.
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A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
The practice of bride price has evolved.
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Bride price practice has both social and psychological implications for the men who pay and those women for whom it is paid.
Cultural norms play an important role in determining whether girls will be send to schools.
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Here’s how cultural practices are playing a role in many countries in incentivizing parents to educate their girls.