{"id":1131,"date":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/botswana-explains-citizenship-granting-criteria\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:05:10","slug":"botswana-explains-citizenship-granting-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/botswana-explains-citizenship-granting-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana explains citizenship granting criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour and Home Affairs Minister Edwin Batshu says 443 nationals of Indian origin and seven of Chinese have been granted Botswana citizenship since 1966.Responding to a question in parliament on Wednesday, Batshu said applications are considered by the Citizenship Committee which is established under Section 3 of the Citizen Act.<\/p>\n<p>He said after considering applications the committee makes recommendations to the minister for final decision.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.starafrica.com\/news\/botswana-explains-citizenship-granting-criteria.html\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour and Home Affairs Minister Edwin Batshu says 443 nationals of Indian origin and seven of Chinese have been granted Botswana citizenship since 1966.Responding to a question in parliament on Wednesday, Batshu said applications are considered by the Citizenship Committee which is established under Section 3 of the Citizen Act. He said after considering applications [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"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-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-botswana","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}