Governments and religious institutions regulate marriage. Such regulations are heavily laden with specific moral ideas and cultural taboos. There are heated debates around what counts as “proper” ...

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

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

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 ...

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

IN A dusty village in southern Niger, Fatia holds her daughter close to her breast, smiling, though the baby looks much too large for her. Four years ago she married at the age of 16, she reckons, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Closing the chapter on child marriages is still a distant ambition in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, and despite great strides at developing and passing legislation to ...

The NAACP's recent endorsement of “gay marriage” drew harsh criticism from within the African American community for misrepresenting civil rights and undermining families. Pastor Derek McCoy, ...