{"id":40142,"date":"2024-03-07T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=40142"},"modified":"2024-03-08T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T19:36:42","slug":"namibia-legislation-to-address-citizenship-gap-for-illegal-sa-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/namibia-legislation-to-address-citizenship-gap-for-illegal-sa-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Legislation to address citizenship gap for illegal SA citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The home affairs ministry has drafted two pieces of legislation to cater to South Africans who came to Namibia in the 1980s and missed the one-year deadline at independence that allowed them to renounce citizenship of any other country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*Fiona, a talented athlete and high school graduate, is considered a \u2018ghost citizen\u2019 of Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents are part of a group of South African descendants who decided to remain in Namibia after the country gained independence.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their long-term residence and contributions to society, she does not meet the criteria for citizenship under the country\u2019s existing regulations because of her parents\u2019 failure to register her at birth.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona has agreed to speak to The Namibian, but prefers to remain anonymous for fear of deportation.<\/p>\n<p>She says she was born in 2003 at a local hospital in the Erongo region to South African parents.<\/p>\n<p>She only has a hospital card to show that she was born in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/press-release-on-the-adoption-of-the-protocol-to-the-african-charter-on-human-and-peoples-rights-relating-to-specific-aspects-of-the-right-to-a-nationality-and-the-eradication-of-statelessness-in-af\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/legislation-to-address-citizenship-gap-for-illegal-sa-citizens\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The home affairs ministry has drafted two pieces of legislation to cater to South Africans who came to Namibia in the 1980s and missed the one-year deadline at independence that allowed them to renounce citizenship of any other country. *Fiona, a talented athlete and high school graduate, is considered a \u2018ghost citizen\u2019 of Namibia. Her [&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-40142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibia","type-news-articles","item-year-695","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-new-states","item-theme-state-succession","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40142","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=40142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40143,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40142\/revisions\/40143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}