{"id":10491,"date":"2016-10-20T08:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T08:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=10491"},"modified":"2016-10-21T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T08:51:18","slug":"namibia-iivula-ithana-withdraws-citizenship-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/namibia-iivula-ithana-withdraws-citizenship-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Iivula-Ithana withdraws Citizenship Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Shinovene Immanuel<\/p>\n<p>HOME affairs minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana has withdrawn the proposed changes to the Citizenship Act after it was rejected by the National Council and the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Iivula-Ithana said the withdrawal of the Citizenship Bill was because she is bound by the \u201ccollective decision\u201d made by Cabinet, which directed that the bill be withdrawn for further consultations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCabinet has undertaken to consult widely on the issue,\u201d she told the National Assembly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/46976\/read\/Iivula-Ithana-withdraws-Citizenship-Bill\">http:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/46976\/read\/Iivula-Ithana-withdraws-Citizenship-Bill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Shinovene Immanuel HOME affairs minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana has withdrawn the proposed changes to the Citizenship Act after it was rejected by the National Council and the Presidency. Iivula-Ithana said the withdrawal of the Citizenship Bill was because she is bound by the \u201ccollective decision\u201d made by Cabinet, which directed that the bill be withdrawn [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibia","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10492,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions\/10492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}