Brides attend a mass wedding ceremony at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, south of Johannesburg. Ihsaan Haffejee/AFP via Getty Images South Africa is changing its marriage law to ...

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 African actress and businesswoman Enhle Mbali Mlotshwa has won a victory in the Johannesburg High Court. It ruled that her customary marriage to music star Nkosinathi “Black Coffee” Maphumulo ...

Former Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and former Justice Edwin Cameron have marked two decades of marriage equality ...

The legal intricacies of customary marriages in South Africa, including the implications of divorce, the importance of registration, and the role of lobola payments.

A new UKZN study by PhD candidate Samkelisiwe Mazibuko reveals how marriage, cohabitation and divorce affect the wellbeing of South African men and women differently across age, race and ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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 ...