{"id":25733,"date":"1996-12-04T11:04:18","date_gmt":"1996-12-04T11:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=25733"},"modified":"2019-12-19T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T11:14:27","slug":"south-africa-constitution-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-constitution-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Constitution 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approved by the Constitutional Court (CC) on 4 December 1996 and entered into force on 4 February 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article 3: Citizenship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. There is a common South African citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>2. All citizens are \u00ad:<br \/>\na. equally entitled to the rights, privileges and benefits of citizenship; and<br \/>\nb. equally subject to the duties and responsibilities of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>3. National legislation must provide for the acquisition, loss and restoration of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article 20: Citizenship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No citizen may be deprived of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article 28: Children<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Every child has the right \u00ad<br \/>\na. to a name and a nationality from birth;<br \/>\nb. to family care or parental care, or to appropriate alternative care when removed from the family environment;<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Download full text: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/documents\/constitution-republic-south-africa-1996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.gov.za\/documents\/constitution-republic-south-africa-1996<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Approved by the Constitutional Court (CC) on 4 December 1996 and entered into force on 4 February 1997. Article 3: Citizenship 1. There is a common South African citizenship. 2. All citizens are \u00ad: a. equally entitled to the rights, privileges and benefits of citizenship; and b. equally subject to the duties and responsibilities of [&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-25733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-national-laws-and-regulations","item-year-474","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25733","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=25733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25738,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25733\/revisions\/25738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}