Barry Bateman PRETORIA – It’s emerged in the Supreme Court of Appeal that the Home Affairs Department has revoked the South African citizenship of Chris Hani’s killer Janusz Walus. The court in Bloemfontein was also told on Monday morning that the […]
Bloemfontein – Janusz Walus has been stripped of his South African citizenship, his lawyer says.Advocate Roelof du Plessis, SC, revealed this in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, where a full bench of judges will decide if Walus should […]
GOVERNMENT has been urged to accede to the 1954 United Nations Conventions relating to the status of stateless persons and the 1961 UN convention on the reduction of statelessness, as well as to expedite the implementation of Article 6 (4) […]
La ministre de l’Education nationale, de l’Enseignement technique et de la Formation professionnelle, Kandia Camara, a révélé vendredi que 1 165 325 écoliers, soit 39,9% de l’effectif national, sont sans extrait d’acte de naissance. Mme Kandia Camara qui a procédé […]
A man believed to be a Lebanese national has planned to contest for the representative seat in the upcoming general and presidential elections. Mr. Abdalah M. Housseini was born to the parentage of a Liberian mother and a Lebanese father. […]
A l’issue du Colloque international sur la traite négrière qui s’est tenu à Libreville du 17 au 19 mai, le Président a proposé d’offrir la nationalité gabonaise à toutes les personnes dont les ancêtres ont été déportés. Un projet complexe […]
La Caritas qui s’est inscrite dans ce sillage depuis années, a mobilisé les acteurs concernés par cette problématique, mercredi, au lancement de son projet « Respect du droit à l’obtention de pièce d’état civil pour les enfants vulnérables de Saint-Louis ». Ce […]
The National Identification Registration Agency (NIRA) is continuing to hold unto 15,000 national identity cards of members of the Maragoli community on grounds that they are not a recognised tribe in Uganda. The Maragoli community settled in present-day Uganda in […]
Concluding observations on Nigeria in the absence of a report CMW/C/NGA/CO/1 Non-discrimination 27.While noting that the Constitution guarantees equal pay for equal work without discrimination on any grounds and that the Labour Act of 2004 protects “all persons in employment”, […]
HARARE – Proposed ban of dual citizenship by Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede is part of a plan by the ruling Zanu PF government to rig the 2018 general elections, social and political analysts contend. Their comments follow Mudede’s presentation on […]
Last week states from around the world gathered to review South Africa on its human rights situation. This process is called the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and all states are reviewed once every 5 years by their fellow states. The […]
By Tamlyn Jolly TRYING to get an ID card issued with the correct ID number is proving a major headache for one Richards Bay resident who, due to retire within the month, is worried she will not be able to […]