The Marriage Bill should strike a balance between preserving non-discriminatory cultural and religious practices and promoting liberal values.
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Before colonialism black South Africans viewed sex and morality very differently than today.
South African customary law should be understood from the perspective of dissonance between the past and the present.
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.
Both South Africa’s courts and its legislature have failed to do their bit in creating a culturally diverse society.
The reasons for the phenomenon of child marriage are complex and include the fact that in customary law, marriageable age was never reckoned as an actual number but depended on puberty.
