A Botswana couple, lawyers Bonolo Selelo and Tsholofelo Kumile, have filed a court case seeking the legal right to marry after being turned away from a government office where they attempted to register their intent to wed. Hearings are scheduled for 14 and 15 July; if successful, Botswana (a landlocked southern African nation that decriminalised same-sex relations in 2019) would become only the second African country to legalise same-sex marriage, after South Africa in 2006. The case faces strong opposition from the government, which argues the Marriage Act defines marriage as between a man and a woman, as well as from traditional and religious groups, while LGBTQ+ advocates say the outcome could be transformative for rights across the continent.