South Africa’s highest court ruled that her husband could take his wife’s sex and reversed how to block them.
In the victory of the two couples who filed the case, the Constitutional Court ruled that the law was “colonial income”, which corresponds to gender discrimination.
Henry Van der Merwe refused to take his wife Jana Jordaan’s right to take the last name, and Andreas Nicolas Bornman could not make his castle a hypen to include Donne, an adult of his wife.
The Congress must now revise the birth and death registration law with the regulations to apply the ruling.
This law has been introduced in South Africa for years of white minority rules.
The two couples claimed that the law was antique and patriarchal, and violated the equality of the constitution adopted by South Africa at the end of the 1994 Afa Lert Hate.
They successfully filed the law in the lower court, but asked the Constitutional Court to confirm the ruling.
The Constitutional Court pointed out that “in many African culture, women maintained their birth after marriage, and children often took their mother’s clan name.” But this changed after “the arrival of European colonies and Christian missionaries and imposition of Western values.”
“The custom of the wife’s husband’s castle was in the Roman-Drych, and in this way, it was introduced into South African customs.
The court said, “This custom was the result of the law introduced by the countries that colonized the African state in the south of Sahara.”
In addition, South Africa has made a “great development” in gender equality, but some laws and practices, which are “harmful stereotypes”, are still maintained.
Leon Schreiber and the Minister of Justice, Mamoloko Kubayi, did not oppose the application of the two couples, and instead agreed that the law was old.
Free State Society of Advocates, a legal institution, joined the court case to support two couples.
According to the Sowetan News Site, he insisted that the man’s right to assume the right to assume the sex of the man’s wife, he denied the choice that a woman could use, and had a harmful stereotype.
