CoA �washes hands� in surrogacy case

Surrogacy-Gofhamodimo Sithole and Lekoko Baatweng with their lawyers at Court of Appeal.PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Surrogacy-Gofhamodimo Sithole and Lekoko Baatweng with their lawyers at Court of Appeal.PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled that it will not aid the commission of an offence in another country in a case in which a former couple is embroiled in a bitter war over the fate of a frozen embryo.

The bench yesterday questioned how the failed attempts at surrogacy managed to avoid or evade the South African statutes since the record before court did not disclose such information.

The complexity and the judges’ stand was that according to the court papers they suggested that the ex couple, Gofamodimo Sithole and Lekoko Baatweng have infringed the South African laws when they agreed to surrogacy and its unfinished process.

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