Marry for the right reasons
Minister urges the public to marry for love and says the Department is to make getting hitched much easier.
The Minister of Home Affairs, Melusi Gigaba, announced on the evening of Valentine’s Day that the Department of Home Affairs is running a campaign to make getting married easier. This follows after the Department investigated and restricted over 4 000 fraudulent marriages last year alone.
This is good news for those who plan to tie the knot, as the Minister encouraged people to get married for love and not for citizenship as is evident in places with high numbers of foreign nationals, such as Krugersdorp, where people seem to marry for reasons other than love.
“The Department has been running a campaign to ensure that we improve our systems to make marriages accessible and more convenient for South Africans and all the people who wish to get married in our country,” said the Minister during a mass wedding on Cape Town’s Robben Island. He said the move serves to encourage people to get married for the right reasons.
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