South Africa’s Constitutional Court rules that men can take wife’s surname

The highest court of South Africa decided that husbands could take the surname of their wives and overthrew a law that prevented them from doing them.

In the victory of the two couples who brought the case, the Constitutional Court decided that the law was contrary to gender -based discrimination.

Henry van der Merwe’s wife Jana Jordaan’s surname was rejected, Andreas Nicolas Bornman, his wife Jess Donnel-Bornman’s surname Donnelly’i could not make the surname unable to include.

Parliament will now have to change the Birth and Death Registration Law with regulations for the decision to enter into force.

The two couples claimed that the law was archaic and patriarchal and violated the equality rights accepted by South Africa in the Constitution at the end of the White-Azınını administration.

They successfully challenged the law in a lower court, but they asked the highest court to approve the decision.