{"id":17291,"date":"2018-04-24T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=17291"},"modified":"2018-04-25T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:03:12","slug":"parliament-set-to-investigate-how-guptas-became-south-african-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/parliament-set-to-investigate-how-guptas-became-south-african-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament set to investigate how Guptas became South African citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Nico Gous<\/p>\n<div id=\"aff170dca3b94574e92eb4d0272928d264684984\" class=\"article-widget article-widget-text\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>Parliament\u2019s portfolio committee on home affairs is to investigate how some members of the Gupta family became South African citizens.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the committee agreed on the terms of reference to investigate what process the Department of Home Affairs followed in granting them citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Home Affairs director-general Mkuseli Apleni last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2018-03-07-home-affairs-backtracks-atul-is-a--south-african-citizen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed<\/a> that Atul was naturalised in November 2002 and Rajesh in July 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2018-04-24-parliament-set-to-investigate-how-guptas-became-south-african-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2018-04-24-parliament-set-to-investigate-how-guptas-became-south-african-citizens\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Nico Gous Parliament\u2019s portfolio committee on home affairs is to investigate how some members of the Gupta family became South African citizens. This comes after the committee agreed on the terms of reference to investigate what process the Department of Home Affairs followed in granting them citizenship. Home Affairs director-general Mkuseli Apleni last month [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291","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=17291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17292,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291\/revisions\/17292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}