Tiaan Koen het op 23 Oktober met Lise Roberts op RSG Landbou gesels oor persoonlike serwitute en hoe dit in die landbousektor toegepas kan word.
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Your surname? Your choice: Constitutional Court’s judgment on spousal surnames
In a unanimous judgment delivered on 11 September 2025, the Constitutional Court held that the current surname-change framework as contained in the Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 are unconstitutional. The matter of Jordaan and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Another (CCT 296/24) [2025] ZACC 19 (11 September 2025), as discussed in this article, was brought by two married couples who challenged a 1992 statute that barred husbands from assuming their wives’ surnames. The Department of Home Affairs had informed the applicants that the law, as it stands, does not allow a husband to assume a spouse’s surname after marriage.
