News
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
By Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass
Publication Date:
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 - 10:30
Director, Safety and Violence Initiative, Centre for Social Science,University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town.
Publication Date:
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 - 12:00
This week Elena Moore was interviewed on the POWER Zone with Morio Sanyane focusing on customary wives and the law. Elena discussed the ways in which the reform of customary law offers some legal protection for customary wives. However she also highlights the limits of the law and the ways in which customary wives still struggle to access property as widows or divorcees. If you are interested and want to hear more, here is the podcast: Customary law and the problems it causes for widows
Publication Date:
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 - 11:30
Elena Moore, in the Mail & Guardian, describes the ways in which customary wives in South Africa, in challenging marital violence, navigate relations of patriarchal domination either through appeals to the state, familial channels or a combination of both.
Publication Date:
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 - 11:45