A landmark Constitutional Court ruling on January 21 has brought much-needed clarity to how debt and assets are shared within a marriage, particularly where customary and civil marriages intersect.

When couples decide to tie the knot, it is never just about the union of two people who want to build a life together.

This column recently highlighted differences between customary and statutory marriages. I am shocked that in customary marriages, there is a silent provision that a man can be adulterous but not the ...

Now they must face a new reality – their civil marriage isn’t valid, and their customary marriage, along with the often-unwritten marital property contract that goes with it, is the one that counts in ...

A lawyer has sued the Attorney General and the Registrar of Marriages over the mandatory requirement for couples in customary marriages to register them. In his case filed before High Court Judge ...