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In 1992, Unity Dow successfully challenged the law, sparking women to press for changes to nationality laws across Africa. [66] A new Citizenship Act was enacted in 1995, eliminating the gender discrepancies in the prior legislation. [67] In 2021, Sithabile Pauline Mathe, instituted a legal challenge to Botswana's prohibition of dual nationality.
It declared provisions of the 1984 Citizenship Act, which barred children from receiving nationality from their mothers, to be unconstitutional. It resulted in the passage of the 1995 Citizenship Act of Botswana, which eliminated gender disparities in the law. The case sparked women to press for changes to nationality laws across Africa.
The primary law governing nationality requirements is the South African Citizenship Act, 1995, which came into force on 6 October 1995. Any person born to at least one South African parent receives citizenship at birth. Children born to a legal resident of the country are permitted to South African citizenship only when they reach the age of ...
In 1990, Dow filed suit in the High Court of Botswana to challenge the Nationality law of Botswana. [3] Under the 1984 Citizenship Act, only illegitimate children could derive nationality through their mother. [15] As two of her three children with Peter were born after their marriage, they were not considered Batswana. [16]
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Attorney General of Botswana v. Unity Dow was a landmark case in Botswana women's rights, in which Unity Dow challenged the Botswanan nationality law that only allowed citizenship to be inherited paternally. [13] The Woman's Affairs Department is the government agency responsible for addressing women's issues. It has been criticised by women's ...
Note that, for the purposes of Irish nationality law, a person born anywhere on the island of Ireland is considered "Irish." (The island includes Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, where British nationality law applies; thus, people born in Northern Ireland are entitled to both British and Irish nationality.)
Chidimma Adetshina, who quit the Miss South Africa beauty pageant last week after being embroiled in a row over her nationality, has accepted an invitation to compete for the title of Miss ...