What is marital rape and why should we pay more attention to it? Though marriage rates in southern Africa have decreased over the past decades, marriage is still considered to be an ideal social tool ...

By Zuzana Schwidrowski and Omolola Mary LipedeADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb 19 2026 (IPS) - Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the ...

The latest ruling from the Constitutional Court means that South Africans engaging in civil and customary marriages need to plan carefully.

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's top court ruled on Thursday that an apartheid-era law banning husbands from taking their wife's family name or hyphenating both spouses' surnames was unconstitutional.

SOUTH Africa's failure to legally recognise Hindu marriages is a lingering legacy of apartheid that continues to harm women and families within the Hindu community.

Every year, 12 million girls around the world get married, adding to an estimated 650 million child brides, and in East and Southern Africa, 31 per cent of girls are married as children before they ...

Residents of the Mopani District Municipality have called for the proposed Marriage Bill to introduce tighter measures to regulate marriages between the South African citizens and foreign nationals, ...

In Niger, a camel dance is done at the wedding reception with a real camel dancing For most couples in Africa, marriage is "till death do us part" due to certain deep-rooted traditions that binds not ...

Freedom of religion is granted by South Africa's constitution. Section 15 (1) says "Everyone has the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion." But members of certain ...