*A groundbreaking legal action in Swaziland’s High Court is testing the new Constitution and its recognition of equal rights for women. A long march for equality has only started 

King Mswati III, sub-saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, approved the constitution in 2005 - on the back of centuries of discrimination against women that accorded them second class status--ending customary and institutional discrimination based on gender.

Mary-Joyce Doo Aphane, an attorney, filed the lawsuit to compel government to overturn Section 16 (3) of the Deeds of Registry Act, which forbids women to register property in their own names.

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