Black South African Women Win Property Rights in Landmark Ruling

For black women married in South Africa before 1988, the husband owned all matrimonial assets and could sell them without consulting his wife - until a landmark court judgment overturned the discriminatory law. The legal victory could help an estimated 400,000 women by giving them more economic freedom, says the Legal Resources Centre, a human rights organisation that helped bring the case to court.

Philipina Ndamane in the Abalama Bezehkaya garden in Guguletu, Cape Town, South Africa (file photo).

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