Namibia’s Supreme Court has just ruled that the government must recognize two same-sex marriages legally concluded abroad. In the historic judgement, the court ruled that the non-Namibian partners in each marriage should be recognized as the spouses of their Namibian partners and given the same residency rights in Namibia that are normally accorded to heterosexual spouses.

Two Namibian nationals had sought recourse from the courts after the ministry of home affairs and immigration refused to grant permits to same-sex foreign spouses whom they had married outside the country.

Annette Seiler, who is married to German national Anita Seiler-Lilles, brought the case along with Namibian citizen Johann Potgieter and his South African husband, Matsobane Daniel Digashu.
Their marriages were respectively concluded in Germany and South Africa.

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