The Chair in Customary Law, Professor Chuma Himonga, hosted a workshop in February 2014 to share and discuss the preliminary findings of a study on The Operation of the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act (RCMA) and Rules of Intestate Succession in the Constitutional Court decision in Bhe v Magistrate Khayelitsha. This study is being conducted in collaboration with Dr Elena Moore, a lecturer in Sociology, and the National Movement of Rural Women.
Six chapters of the preliminary report, highlighting some of the key issues that are problematic to the implementation of the RCMA and the rules of intestate succession, were presented by the researchers. A major output of this research is a book, the proposal of which has already been accepted by a prominent publisher.
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