MUSINGS OF CHIEF JUSTICE CHIVENGE
"All Rise!!! The Court is now in session. The Honourable Chief Justice Chivenge is presiding"
Previously, marriage was defined as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. With the recognition of same sex marriages and the promulgation of the Civil Unions Act, marriage is now defined as a legal union between two spouses. The Marriages Act is obviously two decades behind because heteronormative terms... Continue Reading →
“Adultery and malicious dissertation are for the most part the only ultimate acts which indicate that a marriage has broken down. They are more often the effects of a marriage having broken down than the causes of breakdown”- South African Law Commission Report on Divorce In Ancient Rome adulterers were punished by the church or... Continue Reading →
A deeply embedded patriarchal practice assumes that a married woman must change her surname to that of her spouse. This was standard practice at the department of home affairs. Officials would automatically change the surname of the newlywed wife to that of her husband, sometimes even in violation of the wife’s express intention to keep... Continue Reading →
MUSINGS OF CHIEF JUSTICE CHIVENGE 