The ACDP in Gqeberha joined a nationwide protest on Friday to voice their opposition to what the party has characterised as “a significant overreach” as parliament prepares to hear the first round of inputs to the new draft marriage bill.
The horrible reality is that 207 children were married off in 2021, and without a unified legal framework, the number of child marriages in South Africa could be much higher than official statistics indicate.
<p>Calls to abolish the payment of lobola/roora are associated with some feminist perspective, which decries it as the major cause of inequalities between the sexes. Arguments against it are well established and the intention here is not to argue for or against it, but to simply examine the feasibility of such an abolishment. </p>