
SA High Court strikes down century-old patriarchal marriage rule as unconstitutional
Gretchen Barkhuizen-Barbosa, Emily West, and Phomello Rasebeka

The violence, which has seen some foreign nationals necklaced - a throwback to a horrific practice used during the apartheid era, when suspected police informants were killed by placing a burning tyre around their necks - has spread throughout Gauteng and into other provinces since it first broke out in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra 12 days ago.