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  http://www.times.co.sz/news/135270-law-seeks-to-give-women-rights-to-marital-property.html LAW SEEKS TO GIVE WOMEN RIGHTS TO MARITAL PROPERTY 29/03/2022 08:39:00 Ntombi Mhlongo MBABANE – The common law rule whereby a husband obtains marital power over the property of his wife will soon be a thing of the past. This is because two important pieces of legislation to regulate marriages and matrimonial issues have been gazetted by the government.  These are the Marriages Bill No.8 of 2022 and the Matrimonial Property Bill No.9 of 2022.  It is stated in the Marriages Bill that the effect of the abolition of the marital power was to do away with the restrictions that marital power placed on the capacity of a wife to contract and litigate. Abolished Worth noting is that in 2019, the High Court was called to issue a ruling to decide whether certain sections of the existing legislation on marriage should be abolished or not.  At the time, legal representatives from the Women and Law of Swazila

  Decriminalisation of cannabis for personal use in South Africa     Emma Charlene Lubaale I ; Simangele Daisy Mavundla II I LLB (Makerere) LLM LLD (Pretoria); Senior Lecturer, Department of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of Venda, South Africa. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8006-2946 . elubaale@yahoo.co.uk II LLB (Eswatini) LLM (Pretoria); Doctoral Candidate, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1953-315X . simangelekb@gmail.com     SUMMARY In 2002 the South African Constitutional Court was faced with a case challenging the constitutionality of the legislation criminalising cannabis use. The appellant argued that the criminalisation infringed the right to religion. The Court, however, ruled that the legislation did not constitute a constitutional infringement. It is worth noting that the African Commission and the Human Rights Committee previously have dealt with this issue, in parti