On any
petition presented, 1[by a husband or a wife, praying that his or her marriage may be dissolved by
reason of his wife or her husband, as the case may be, having been guilty of adultery, cruelty or
desertion], the husband and wife respectively shall be competent and compellable to give evidence of
or relating to such cruelty or desertion.
1. Subs. by Act 51 of 2001, s. 28, for certain words (w.e.f 3-10-2001).