{"id":907,"date":"1984-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1984-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/botswana-citizenship-amendment-act-of-1984\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T22:09:09","slug":"botswana-citizenship-amendment-act-of-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/botswana-citizenship-amendment-act-of-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Citizenship (Amendment) Act No 17 of 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Act amends the Citizenship Act, 1982. The amendments state that a person born in Botswana shall be a citizen if, at the time of his birth, his father was a citizen, or, in the case of a person born out of wedlock, his mother was a citizen of Botswana. In addition, the Amendment substitutes the original Act\u2019s sections on naturalisation of married women (section 12) and deprivation of citizenship, with new ones.<\/p>\n<p>Download file:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Botswana-Citizenship-Amendment-Act-1984.pdf\" rel=\"\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Act amends the Citizenship Act, 1982. The amendments state that a person born in Botswana shall be a citizen if, at the time of his birth, his father was a citizen, or, in the case of a person born out of wedlock, his mother was a citizen of Botswana. In addition, the Amendment substitutes [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"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-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-botswana","region-southern-africa","type-national-laws-and-regulations","item-year-462","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9216,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/9216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}