On Wednesday, the Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court ruled ... filed an application with the court asking that it repeal Marriage Act and the Customary Marriage Act, which allowed girls to marry ...

The proposed Marriages Bill, 2017 seeks to harmonise marriage laws in Zimbabwe and bring the governance of marriages under a single Act. It also seeks to align the law with the provisions of the ...

it also raised questions about Zimbabwe’s marriage laws. Legal analysts say the country’s Marriage Act is seriously flawed, as it seems to recognize only monogamous civil marriages despite anecdotal ...

Zimbabwe has two sets of marriage laws, the Marriage Act and Customary Marriages Act. Neither law gives a minimum age for marriage consent, while the customary law allows polygamy. A new marriages ...

She was also forced into a marriage ... practice was widespread. "Zimbabwe has legal provisions that help curb child marriages. "We have Lama ( Legal Age of Majority Act), the Zimbabwe ...

Zimbabwe has ushered in a new marriage law that gives equal rights to "girlfriends" and women in registered unions upon the dissolution of a marriage or death of the husband. Marriage Act (Chapter ...

The Customary Marriage Act sets no minimum age. They say the law should be brought into line with Zimbabwe's 2013 constitution as well as regional and international treaties banning child marriage.

The United Nations says nearly one-third of girls in Zimbabwe marry before their 18th birthday and 4 percent marry before they turn 15. Child marriage is common in Zimbabwe’s indigenous ...

This is the case with the Marriages Bill, which sought to replace the Customary Marriages Act and the ... a legal age for marriage. This is an important harmonisation of Zimbabwe’s international ...

On Wednesday, the Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court ruled in favor of two ... filed an application with the court asking that it repeal Marriage Act and the Customary Marriage Act, which allowed girls ...

In their statements to the Constitutional Court, Tsopodzi and Mudzuru, now 19 and 20, say Zimbabwe's Marriage Act is discriminatory because it sets the minimum age at 16 for girls and 18 for boys.