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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.
South African nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of South 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.
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]
Nationality law is the law of a sovereign state, and of each of its jurisdictions, that defines the legal manner in which a national identity is acquired and how it may be lost. In international law, the legal means to acquire nationality and formal membership in a nation are separated from the relationship between a national and the nation ...
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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 ...
Botswana, [c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [d] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 per cent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north and Zimbabwe to the