If Black Coffee appeals against the judgement, he’s unlikely to succeed unless he successfully argues a technicality.

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

A unanimous Constitutional Court ruling has sparked fierce controversy by affirming the right of South African men to adopt their wives’ surnames if they wish to. It emerged from a lawsuit against the ...

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

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 ...

The United Methodist Church has overwhelmingly given its stamp of approval to same-sex marriages. The 523-161 vote to make the change came last week, according to WTVD. Several delegates opposed the ...

Analysis - Despite international efforts to eliminate child marriage, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to have high rates of this harmful practice.

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 ...

Home Affairs Completes Western Cape Marriage Bill Hearings with Concern that Polygamy Might Entrench Gender-Based Violence ...

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 ...