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The Limpopo High Court, sitting in Polokwane, also overturned the late soldier’s civil marriage to his second South African wife in the application. The court had been asked to decide whether a then 17-year-old who married the soldier in 1970 in terms of customary law in Zimbabwe is deemed to be legally married to him in South Africa. The husband moved to South Africa in the 1980s and left his wife behind in Zimbabwe. He married another woman here, in terms of civil law. The first wife, who is now in her 70s, asked the court to declare her the…