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🇿🇦 South Africa
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School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
Residencies at STIAS
2026 1st Semester
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Contracts in South African customary marriages: What they do, can’t do and their impact on inequalities

In this presentation Bonthuys specifically focused on the use of contracts in customary marriages between South Africans in three contexts – lobolo agreements, polygynous customary marriages and simultaneous civil and customary marriages.