This Day in History: 1 December 2006
On this day in South African history, Vernon Gibbs and Tony Halls became the first same sex couple to legally wed in the country, one day after President Thabo Mbeki’s government legalized gay marriage. This made South Africa the first country on the continent and the fifth country in the world to legalize same sex marriages.[1]
End Notes
[1] Meldrum, A., “Couple celebrates first gay wedding in South Africa,” (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/04/worlddispatch.southafrica) 8 January 2017. ↵
