I am a marriage officer. However, I am not familiar with the complexities of marriage law. Last week, a couple spoke to me about a problem. He is a European, and she is a "dark" South African. They have been married for many years, yet the government grants them permission to be together only for the smaller part of each year. I approached a marriage officer who is more familiar with such things. It is a wider problem, he said -- such that there are now agencies to manage it. He said: "It is totally ridiculous." And he echoed what the couple themselves had told me: "It seems they have made it into a colour issue." OBSERVATION: One of the major difficulties of apartheid was that married couples couldn't be together, for a variety of reasons.
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