Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu is presently working on crystallizing into law a new policy base on the fact that women gets the house during divorce.
The minister told Parliament’s portfolio committee on human settlements that the house belongs to the couple for as long they’re married and when they get divorced the house belongs to the woman. That is our policy. So the man picks up his jacket and gets out,”
The minister said her thinking was informed by the fact that mothers were the primary caregivers for their children.
“The wife stays because the wife is indeed responsible for the children.”
Sisulu suggested the policy had not yet found its way into law because the department had been “presided by men”.
She said if a wife died the house would go to the husband, on condition the children were also considered beneficiaries and that the house accrued to them if he remarried.
“If he finds somebody else, he gives the house to the children and goes to the other woman.”
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