{"id":30389,"date":"2020-12-02T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=30389"},"modified":"2020-12-03T15:21:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:21:01","slug":"south-africa-sca-rules-against-home-affairs-in-brothers-citizenship-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-sca-rules-against-home-affairs-in-brothers-citizenship-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: SCA rules against Home Affairs in brothers\u2019 citizenship battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bernadette Wicks<\/p>\n<p>In 1995, Joseph Emmanuel Jose and Jonathan Diabaka\u2019s parents fled their war-torn home country and came to SA. The following year, Jose was born. He was followed a year later by his brother.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has thrown out the department of home affairs\u2019 bid to overturn an order that it grants citizenship to two men who were born in South Africa to Angolan refugees.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the back of a protracted legal battle, dating back to 2014, when their family\u2019s refugee status was withdrawn and the two men \u2013 then teenagers \u2013 were threatened with repatriation to a country they had never set foot in.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/courts\/2403765\/sca-rules-against-home-affairs-in-brothers-citizenship-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/courts\/2403765\/sca-rules-against-home-affairs-in-brothers-citizenship-battle\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bernadette Wicks In 1995, Joseph Emmanuel Jose and Jonathan Diabaka\u2019s parents fled their war-torn home country and came to SA. The following year, Jose was born. He was followed a year later by his brother. The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has thrown out the department of home affairs\u2019 bid to overturn an order [&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-30389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389","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=30389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30390,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions\/30390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}