Southern Africa: Namibia’s New Divorce Philosophy Is Both Revolutionary and Overdue

Lord Alfred Denning, a legendary English judge, speaking in 1967 on reform to the law of divorce, stated: “We should do everything of course to maintain the marriage if we can, but if it be irretrievably broken down, let the empty shell be buried and done away with, with as much quietness and lack of bitterness and lack of humiliation as possible.”

On the other hand, the London Daily Telegraph, reporting on the changing socio-legal nature of marriage in 1983, stated: “Marriage as an institution is…