{"id":34506,"date":"2022-01-26T16:16:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=34506"},"modified":"2022-01-27T16:18:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:18:40","slug":"south-africa-statelessness-in-spotlight-as-home-affairs-to-review-three-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-statelessness-in-spotlight-as-home-affairs-to-review-three-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Statelessness in spotlight as home affairs to review three acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Citizenship Act, the Refugee Act and the Immigration Act are under review to align them with international refugee law<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Linda Ensor<\/p>\n<p>Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says a clearer definition of statelessness must underpin revisions to the Citizenship Act, which together with the Refugee Act and the Immigration Act are under a fundamental review by his department.<\/p>\n<p>He said in an interview on Wednesday that there was a common misconception that a child born in SA had the right to apply for citizenship when they turned 18 years on the grounds that without that, they would be stateless.<\/p>\n<p>Read further (subscription required): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2022-01-26-statelessness-in-spotlight-as-home-affairs-to-review-three-acts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2022-01-26-statelessness-in-spotlight-as-home-affairs-to-review-three-acts\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Citizenship Act, the Refugee Act and the Immigration Act are under review to align them with international refugee law By Linda Ensor Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says a clearer definition of statelessness must underpin revisions to the Citizenship Act, which together with the Refugee Act and the Immigration Act are under a fundamental [&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":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-683","item-theme-acquisition-par-les-enfants","item-theme-apatridie","item-theme-nationalite-et-des-refugies","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34507,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506\/revisions\/34507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}