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Saamwoon voor die huwelik - AH Bogaards

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eality of the act; is is wrong because unmarried people thereby engage in a lifeuniting<br />

act without a life-uniting intent. Whenever two people copulate without a<br />

commitment to life-union, they commit fornication.” (Vgl. ook Jenkins, 1995:238.)<br />

Stafford (1998:37) is <strong>die</strong>selfde mening toegedaan en verklaar: “So what is God‟s<br />

view of sex? Simple: Sex is wonderful within marriage. Outside of marriage it‟s<br />

an offense to the inventor.” Dit geld vanselfsprekend ook vir saamwoon <strong>voor</strong> <strong>die</strong><br />

<strong>huwelik</strong>.<br />

Hier<strong>die</strong> siening word ook aangetref by <strong>die</strong> Kansas Bishops (1998) in „n pastorale<br />

brief wat hulle geskryf het aan pare wat saamwoon en aan <strong>die</strong>gene wat hulle<br />

moet begelei na <strong>die</strong> <strong>huwelik</strong>. Hulle skryf (1998:5,6): “Premarital sexual<br />

intercourse deprives the conjugal act of the deeper meaning that God created it<br />

to contain. There is not a total giving of self in premarital sexual relations as<br />

there ought to be in the sexual act of husband and wife. It is seriously morally<br />

wrong for two people to have sex if they are not married, becuase the sexual act<br />

expresses a total commitment which the couple does not yet have.”<br />

Afbakening van stu<strong>die</strong><br />

Die inheemse reg van Suid-Afrikaanse volke en hulle kulturele praktyke dui<br />

daarop dat stu<strong>die</strong> rondom saamwoon <strong>voor</strong> <strong>die</strong> <strong>huwelik</strong> ook by sulke groepe<br />

dringend noodsaaklik is, veral ook vanuit „n teologies-etiese perspektief.<br />

So kom saamwoon by<strong>voor</strong>beeld <strong>voor</strong> by verskeie swart bevolkingsgroepe onder<br />

wie <strong>die</strong> sogenaamde lobolostelsel 2 in gebruik is. Volgens hier<strong>die</strong> stelsel moet <strong>die</strong><br />

man <strong>die</strong> prys (ikhazi) vir sy vrou aan haar ouers betaal <strong>voor</strong> hy met haar kan trou<br />

2<br />

In hier<strong>die</strong> stu<strong>die</strong> word verwys na <strong>die</strong> lobolostelsel en dit word soos volg gedefineer (Suid-<br />

Afrika, 2004:174-175): “Lobolo means the property in cash or in kind, whether known as<br />

lobolo, bogadi, bohali, xuma, lumalo, thaka, ikhazi, magedi, emabheka or by any other<br />

name, which a prospective husband or the head of his family undertakes to give to the<br />

head of the prospective wife‟s family in consideration of a customary marriage.”<br />

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