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A court in South Africa has ruled that a man can take his wife's
or have a double-barrelled name. Before this
, the country's Births and Deaths Registration Act had required that a
needed to apply to the
to take his wife's name or to hyphenate it. However, even then, there was no
it would be granted. The
was denied in many
. The new rule says prohibiting a man from adopting his
family name was gender discrimination. It says a man has the
to assume the
name of a woman he marries.
