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Bernadette Wicks Picture: iStock Almost 40 years after she was brutally gang raped, one woman’s quest for justice has placed her at the centre of a bold new bid to do away with legislation that puts a time cap on suing sexual offenders for damages. Late last year, the woman - identified only as “AR” in court documents - approached the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban with a civil suit against two of six men she says held her in a bedroom and raped and assaulted her for hours on end while she was at a party in late 1981. The other four men,.
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The apartheid-era Black Administration Act combined with the more recent Matrimonial Property Act has effectively left thousands of elderly black women married out of community of property .
Pinetown housewife Agnes Sithole challenged this legislation and won in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban.
The ConCourt upheld the Durban ruling and ruled that all these marriages were by default in community of property, unless people specifically opt out.
The Constitutional Court has come to the aid of many black, mostly elderly, women whose marriages were automatically deemed out of community of property , GroundUp reported.
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The integrity, legitimacy, credibility, and public confidence in the courts is dented almost daily. It is time for the chief justice to do something to redeem the image of the country s judiciary, writes
Omphemetse Sibanda.
What a month it has been for the judiciary.
First, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng hit back with a razor-sharp 39-page appeal against a Judicial Service Commission ruling by retired Deputy President Phineas Mojapelo, in which he was ordered to apologise and retract his public comments on SA s foreign policy on Israel.
The flaming character of the chief justice stood forth, on many points, controversially and interestingly as he lashed out at Mojapelo.