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Bwanya v Master of the High Court, Cape Town and Others (CCT 241 of 2020) [2021] ZACC 51

Tuesday, 12 July 2022 by Snegugu Dlamini

Article written by S’negugu Dlamini, Candidate Attorney, checked by Jordan Dias, Associate and released by Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, Partner at Schindlers Attorneys 11 July 2022 Introduction The Bwanya judgment deals with the right of a surviving life partner in a permanent opposite-sex life partnership to inherit or claim maintenance from the deceased partner’s estate. Pursuant to

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MN and others v Director General: Department of Home Affairs & another [2018] JOL 40100 (ECG)

Friday, 26 April 2019 by Wynand Bouwer

SUMMARY The First Applicant (“MLN”), South African Citizen and member of South African National Defence Force, and the Second Applicant (“DMN”), a citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”) (collectively referred to as “the Parties”), met whilst DMN was posted in the DRC as a peacekeeper. The Parties married in DRC, their marriage, however,

Birth and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 birth certificate refusal Department/Minister of Home Affairs foreign mother unregistered child