Directory of Marriage Resources

Websites and webpages dealing with the South African Civil Unions Bill and gay marriage. The Civil Union Act (Act 17 of 2006)

Resources in This Category

BBC News: South Africa to have gay weddings

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4487756.stm
South Africa's highest court rules in favour of same-sex marriages, which were banned under current legislation.
Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and Eighteen Others v Minister of Home Affairs (CCT 10/05) [2005] ZACC 20; 2006 (3) BCLR 355 (CC); 2006 (1) SA 524 (CC) (1 December 2005)

http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/2005/20.html
Constitutional Court judgement demanding parliment to correct legislation to include same sex marriage.
Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another (CCT 60/04) [2005] ZACC 19; 2006 (3) BCLR 355 (CC); 2006 (1) SA 524 (CC) (1 December 2005)

http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZACC/2005/19.html
Constitutional Court judgement that "under the Constitution the common law of marriage has been developed to include same-sex unions."
New York Time: South African Rites

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19lives-t.html
Personal experience of getting married at a Home Affairs office.
Wikipedia - Same-sex marriage in South Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_South_Africa
Events leading up to the creation of the Act allowing for same sex marriage.

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