By McGeorge Mbare
The South Africa ‘s legal fraternity has welcomed a recent ground breaking Free State High Court judgment affording a husband the right to take on his wife’s surname.
According to SABC, the legal judgement come after two different couples approached the court after the Department of Home Affairs had denied the husbands the right to assimilate the surnames of their wives.
They argued that the act and regulations perpetuate gender norms set by patriarchal society that entrench gender inequality.
According to SABC, a south African Legal expert Ayanda Moremoholo emphasised that the judgment means a section of the Birth and Death Registration Act should now be amended as prescribed by the court.
“This is a groundbreaking judgment because whatever the Constitutional Court is going to say will bring a lot of different issues that are going to be automatically corrected within our community and this is definitely a step in the right direction.”