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Celebrating 15 years of same-sex marriage in South Africa

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It was 15 years ago that South Africa became the first nation on the continent and the fifth in the world to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples. On 30 November 2006, the Civil Union Act came into effect; allowing gay and lesbian couples to either marry or enter into a civil union.

Marriage equality in South Africa was a direct result of a 1 December 2005 Constitutional Court ruling that ordered Parliament to allow people of the same sex to marry within one year.

It took a network of activists and a lesbian couple, Marié Adriaana Fourie and Cecelia Johanna Bonthuys, to bring the case to the court to force the government’s hand.

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