{"id":31864,"date":"2021-05-14T18:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=31864"},"modified":"2021-05-24T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:35:23","slug":"nigerian-mans-illegal-marriage-to-young-sa-woman-revoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigerian-mans-illegal-marriage-to-young-sa-woman-revoked\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian man\u2019s illegal marriage to young SA woman revoked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Zelda Venter<\/p>\n<p>Pretoria &#8211; A Nigerian citizen will have to return to his country of birth after South African authorities revoked his citizenship nearly a decade after it was granted.<\/p>\n<p>This was based on allegations that he had illegally married a young South African woman.<\/p>\n<p>It transpired, however, that Antony Nwafor, although apparently telling Home Affairs he was a bachelor at the time of his wedding in this country, was already married to another woman in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/pretoria-news\/news\/nigerian-mans-illegal-marriage-to-young-sa-woman-revoked-938a901a-32fb-450f-8656-e330371899d0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/pretoria-news\/news\/nigerian-mans-illegal-marriage-to-young-sa-woman-revoked-938a901a-32fb-450f-8656-e330371899d0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Zelda Venter Pretoria &#8211; A Nigerian citizen will have to return to his country of birth after South African authorities revoked his citizenship nearly a decade after it was granted. This was based on allegations that he had illegally married a young South African woman. It transpired, however, that Antony Nwafor, although apparently telling [&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-31864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31864","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=31864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31865,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31864\/revisions\/31865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}