LCP4804 Assignment 2 Semester 2 2024 | Due 9 September 2024

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LCP4804 Assignment 2 Semester 2 2024 | Due 9 September 2024. All questions answered.

Before his death Z married his wife R by customary rites. After Z’s death R went to register their
customary marriage at the Home Affairs Department, only to be told, to her consternation, that P had
already been to that office to register hers with the deceased. R knew that P did what she did in order
to claim Z’s estate.
1. Comment on whether Z could possibly have had two valid customary marriages, referring to
any law/legislation recognising it.
2. What would your comment be if R says Z never told her about his customary marriage with
P and that R and Z subscribed to Tsonga customary law which does not recognise Z’s further
customary marriage, contracted without her consent as Z’s senior wife.
3. What would be the position if K, being Z’s father, says he does not recognise both R and P as
his son’s (Z’s) widows as he never negotiated these marriages.
4. Would R’s and P’s situation be any different if K’s issue with their customary marriages was
their invalidity for no-observance of the necessary imvume/ukumekeza traditions.
5. What would be the position if Q appeared claiming to be the only descendant of Z by an
earlier relationship. Q discredits R’s customary marriage because her lobolo was never paid in
full; and P’s one because she was never delivered to the groom’s family.