The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) celebrates a landmark victory for Muslim women and children, who are now legally recognised following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s signing of the Divorce Amendment Bill. This achievement follows the WLC’s Constitutional Court application, addressing the legal exclusion of Muslim marriages from South Africa’s Marriage Act and Divorce Act. In June 2022,
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The South African legal profession is complex and carries the burden of a patriarchal legacy of racism and gender discrimination. It is particularly Black women who continue to be viewed through a stereotypical lens, with their work historically being undervalued and underpaid. Given South Africa’s colonial and apartheid history, it comes as no surprise that
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 July 2021 Constitutional Court decision in Qwelane case is a win for womxn’s rights in South Africa ___________________________________________________________________________ The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) is encouraged by the Constitutional Court’s decision, handed down today, which confirms that section 10(b) and 10(c) of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act
CAPE TOWN: The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) welcomes the decision made by the Western Cape High Court today to admit the WLC as an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, in the landmark case Booysen vs Dolley which will have wide consequences for womxn who choose to name their perpetrators of sexual violence publicly