Section 52 – Competence of husband and wife to give evidence as to cruelty or desertion

On any petition presented, ¹[by a husband or a wife, praying that his or her marriage may be dissolved by reason of his wife or her husband, as the case may be, having been guilty of adultery, cruelty or desertion], the husband and wife respectively shall be competent and compellable to give evidence of or relating to such cruelty or desertion.

¹. Subs. by Act 51 of 2001, s. 28, for certain words (w.e.f 3-10-2001).