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Recognition of Customary Marriages Act 1998 (Act No. 120 of 1998)

6. Equal status and capacity of spouses

 

A wife in a customary marriage has, on the basis of equality with her husband and subject to the matrimonial property system governing the marriage, full status and capacity, including the capacity to acquire assets and to dispose of them, to enter into contracts and to litigate, in addition to any rights and powers that she might have at customary law.