By Ryan Lenora Brown<\/p>\n
Daniel Digashu didn\u2019t set out to become a symbol. When he brought his case to a Namibian court in 2017, he had a simple request. He wanted them to recognize his South African marriage to his Namibian husband Johann Potgieter, so that the couple and their son could stay together in Mr. Potgieter\u2019s home country.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of us is from here,\u201d Mr. Digashu reasoned, \u201cso we should have the choice to live here, the same as any couple.\u201d<\/p>\n
Phillip L\u00fchl and Guillermo Delgado weren\u2019t trying to become activists either, when they asked a Namibian court earlier this year to grant citizenship to their infant twin daughters, who were born by a surrogate in neighboring South Africa. They, too, had been married in South Africa, and they too wanted to be together, as a family, in Namibia.<\/p>\n