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Article: SOUTH AFRICA: TRADITIONS DEPRIVE WOMEN OF THEIR BASIC RIGHTS.(Brief Article)
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- WIN News
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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IPS Francophone Service (translated from French)
"In South Africa, despite significant progress, women are still treated as 'minors' if they marry according to African traditional law. According to the still valid Bantu traditional laws a woman needs permission of her husband to start a business or to enter into any legal agreement or contract.
According to the Report on Equality of the Sexes, the age of majority in South Africa is 21. Yet, according to traditional law women are permanent 'minors' and under control of their husbands.' My husband spends all the money he ...