Motlanthe said Muslim couples would now have the "protective instruments" of the secular state, while maintaining "Koranic values"
Source/Credit: The Huffington Post
By AFP | May 2, 2014
South Africa on Wednesday accredited over 100 imams as marriage officers, allowing the Muslim clerics to officiate at fully recognized weddings for the first time.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe hailed "a new chapter in the story of the Muslim community in South Africa".
"This will enable the legal official recognition of the unions of Muslim couples," he said at a ceremony in Cape Town.
Imams had previously presided over weddings that were not fully recognized in civil law.
Motlanthe said Muslim couples would now have the "protective instruments" of the secular state, while maintaining "Koranic values"
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