To eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030, progress would need to be 27 times faster. Understanding shifting trends behind this practice is a start.
Church Wedding in the Eastern Cape, 1920.
Image courtesy Monica and Godfrey Wilson Collection BC880/African Studies Library/University of Cape Town
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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