{"id":32034,"date":"2021-03-16T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32034"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:30:14","slug":"botswana-woman-wants-dual-citizenship-for-her-adult-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/botswana-woman-wants-dual-citizenship-for-her-adult-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Woman wants dual citizenship for her adult children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_92 wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span6\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_93 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_93\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Khonani Ontebetse<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Government faces a Unity Dowesque case in which a Motswana woman married to a Norwegian is challenging the legality of forcing her children to choose between the citizenship of either parent before they are adults. Currently children born in Botswana can have dual citizenship but have to choose a single citizenship before attaining the age of 21. In her founding affidavit Sithabile Pauline Mathe explains that she has established homes in Gaborone and Olso, Norway. She got married to Havard Greger Hagen in 2002 in Olso who is a citizen of Norway. There are two children born from the marriage, namely Sunniva Moratiwa Greger Mathe and Jonas Nokwazi Greger Mathe.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaystandard.info\/woman-wants-dual-citizenship-for-her-adult-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sundaystandard.info\/woman-wants-dual-citizenship-for-her-adult-children\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Khonani Ontebetse Government faces a Unity Dowesque case in which a Motswana woman married to a Norwegian is challenging the legality of forcing her children to choose between the citizenship of either parent before they are adults. Currently children born in Botswana can have dual citizenship but have to choose a single citizenship before [&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-32034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-botswana","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-dual-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32034","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=32034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32035,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32034\/revisions\/32035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}