More on the new South African marriage laws: the first gay couple were married in South Africa today, a day after the law was signed by the Deputy President of South Africa. The couple were Vernon Gibbs and Tony Halls, who own a guest lodge in Riversdale, a rather conservative town in the South West Cape of South Africa. (This is, by the way, a spectacularly beautiful area of South Africa- well worth a visit if you are down there).
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