The case settles a longstanding question: how does a civil marriage affect a couple’s earlier customary marriage?

Members of the public have expressed concerns over South Africa's new Marriage Bill, which seeks to centralise the nation's ...

This is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya. Today, a special roundtable discussion on the state of black marriage in 2006. But first, back to 1965. A report called Black Families in Crisis, written by ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Modernisation is causing the extinction of African culture. Perhaps our forefathers were ...

Child marriage will cost African countries tens of billions of dollars in lost earnings and human capital, says a new World Bank report launched ahead of the African Union Commission’s second African ...

What is marital rape and why should we pay more attention to it? Though marriage rates in southern Africa have decreased over the past decades, marriage is still considered to be an ideal social tool ...

The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology. Now, with the approach of its first major ...