{"id":40144,"date":"2024-03-07T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=40144"},"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\/fr\/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=\"http:\/\/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\/?lang=fr\" 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-40144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibie","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-695","item-theme-acquisition-par-les-enfants","item-theme-apatridie","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage","item-theme-nouveaux-etats","item-theme-succession-d-etat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40144","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=40144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40145,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40144\/revisions\/40145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}