{"id":32042,"date":"2020-07-12T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32042"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:35:59","slug":"400-batswana-renounce-their-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/400-batswana-renounce-their-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"400 Batswana renounce their citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_87 vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row absolute_inner_full\">\n<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> Cedric Swanka<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_94 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_94\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Since Parliament deliberations last year on dual citizenship, around 400 Batswana have so far renounced their foreign citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>While government is yet to take a firm stance on whether it approves or disapproves of its citizens possessing dual citizenship, the Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs Permanent Secretary Molefi Keaja said the issue of dual citizenship is a sensitive matter.<\/p>\n<p>He said it needs thorough consultations before the law can be amended to accommodate any more opportunities for dual citizenship. Currently the ministry is engaged in such consultations with stakeholders with a view to Amend the Act.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaystandard.info\/400-batswana-renounce-their-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sundaystandard.info\/400-batswana-renounce-their-citizenship\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Cedric Swanka Since Parliament deliberations last year on dual citizenship, around 400 Batswana have so far renounced their foreign citizenship. While government is yet to take a firm stance on whether it approves or disapproves of its citizens possessing dual citizenship, the Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs Permanent Secretary Molefi Keaja said [&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-32042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-botswana","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32042","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=32042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32044,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32042\/revisions\/32044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}