By Christine Hobden Xenophobia is back on the table: the Economic Freedom Fighters programme to check the ratio of South African to foreign employees at restaurants has prompted a heated public discourse. Where exactly is the line drawn between democratic […]
Having no nationality of any country, this group is often left out of essential services By: Mkhululi Chimoio Clad in a torn and tattered orange overall, 25-year-old Brandon Ndlovu cuts a lone figure at Benoni, in Johannesburg, one of South […]
Citizenship (Passport Fees) Regulations, 2022 WHEREAS the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has introduced new technology on the issuance of electronically readable passports; AND WHEREAS there is a backlog on applications for machine readable passports that needs to […]
Kenyans whose fingerprints were captured in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) database have sigh of relief after the government removed the thumbprints and issued them with national identity cards. Victims who spoke to KNA said that it […]
Haki na Sheria Initiative welcomes the government’s plan to issue national identity cards to 14,000 victims of double registration in Garissa on the 19th January 2022. Download: Haki na Sheria Press Release 18Jan2022
INTRODUCTION Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh This introduction briefly presents our symposium on the recently published monograph by Robtel Neajai Pailey entitled Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia (Cambridge University Press, […]
SABC Cutting Edge – 20 minute feature on children excluded from school for lack of birth registration (including those with South African parents). Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjD7g_D41L0
Il a été interrogé par Top Fm sur les procédures concernant un bébé né sur le sol mauricien ou alors dans un avion ou sur un bateau. Mario Ayelou explique que le principe de droit du sol n’existe pas à […]
By Abudul Mahajubu, Researcher, Makerere University It’s been well over a century since the Nubian people arrived in Uganda from what was then Sudan, as the armed enforcers of the British colonial government. Over time, the new arrivals assimilated individuals […]
The Nigerian Government has deactivated biometric identification of human rights activist and former Presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore. The documents deactivated include the activist’s national identity card, permanent voter card, international passport and driver license. As a result of this, Sowore […]
Several dual-national prisoners of conscience have had to give up their Egyptian nationality in order to leave the country Egyptian-Palestinian Ramy Shaath’s release from prison after 900 days came as a huge relief to the rights activist and his family […]
By Fazilla Tembo The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services has disclosed that it will start receiving and processing applications for dual citizenship from this month, January 2022. The department’s National Public Relations Officer, Wellington Chiponde, revealed on Tuesday that […]