Malnutrition among Eastern Cape children is at crisis levels. But children are being neglected all over the country by the government, writes Phylicia Oppelt.
A South African Law Review Commission discussion paper, which proposes progressive changes to the country’s 40-year-old Matrimonial Property Act, has appeared to raise the ire of some members of the Muslim community.The vehement objectors to the paper say the rights of divorce in a Muslim marriage [Nikah] vest only with the husband and these religious marriage regimes should never be subject to SA law or its courts.