17-582: The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970 (Act No. 26 of 1970; subsequently renamed the Black States Citizenship Act, 1970 and the National States Citizenship Act, 1970 ) was a denaturalization law passed during the apartheid era of South Africa that allocated various tribes/nations of black South Africans as citizens of their traditional black tribal "homelands," or Bantustans . The following
34-582: A referendum . Formal negotiations began in December 1991 at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). The parties agreed on a process, whereby a negotiated transitional constitution would provide for an elected constitutional assembly to draw up a permanent constitution. The CODESA negotiations broke down, however, after the second plenary session in May 1992. One of the major points of dispute
51-553: A forgery or alteration; prints or produces a document; issues a document without authority; incorrect records information and make false statements. Defines the rights, after conviction of person for offence under section 10(1)(b and d), to confiscate the instruments uses to forge and reproduce a document or citizenship certificate, except in the case where the owner of those instruments did not know what they were being used for. Defines what sections of Criminal Procedures Act applies to confiscations detailed in section 10(2)(b). Defines
68-487: A person classified to a particular homeland or self-governing territory has the right to vote there. Defines that even though a person is a citizen of a particular homeland or self-governing territory, they were still a citizen of the Republic in relation to international law. Defines that duties, obligation or responsibilities of a person classified to a homeland or self-governing territory are not relieved of except what
85-568: Is a brief description of the sections of the Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970: Defines the explanations of keywords in the Act. Defines that there is a citizenship for every homeland or self-governing territory. Defines that every Black person in the Republic, if not already classified to a homeland or self-governing territory, shall be a citizen of one of these homelands or self-governing territory. Defines that
102-548: Is a citizen of a homeland or self-governing territory, a provisional certificate issue if a full certificate can't be issued immediately and that requirements be made known by whatever means to Black people in the Republic Defines the forms, photographs, and information required to be issued a certificate as well as what homeland or self-governing territory they belonged too. Defines the need for two photographs for certificate to be issued, one of which would remain with
119-441: Is described by the Act. Defines the citizenship procedures of a Black person is currently in a homeland or self-governing territory. Defines the loss of citizenship of one homeland or self-governing territory if they become a citizen of another. Defines that a Black people in a homeland or self-governing territory shall be entitled to a citizenship certificate. Defines that the certificate would be issued to any Black person who
136-610: The Bantu (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act 67 of 1952 be substituted with the text of this section, which defines the establishment of a Bantu Reference Bureau. Defines that section 8 of the Transkei Constitution Act 48 of 1963 be substituted with the text of this section, defining the loss of citizenship if the citizen of the Transkei becomes a citizen of another country or Homeland. Defines
153-611: The Population Registration Act 30 of 1950 with the text of this section, rights, and duties of a peace officer to have a person furnish them with their full name and address. Defines that section 7 of the Bantu Authorities Act 68 of 1951 be amended with the removal and addition of the word "and" at the end of (f) and (g) and the addition of a new section (h), which defines the ability to issue certificates of citizenship. Defines that section 11 of
170-538: The abolition of apartheid . It also introduced an entrenched bill of rights against which legislation and government action could be tested, and created the Constitutional Court with broad powers of judicial review . An integral part of the negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa was the creation of a new, non-discriminatory constitution for the country. One of the major disputed issues
187-660: The name of the Act. The act was repealed on 27 April 1994 by the Interim Constitution of South Africa . Denaturalization laws Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 535713450 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:51:48 GMT Interim Constitution of South Africa The Interim Constitution
SECTION 10
#1732773108194204-406: The other paragraphs of this section Defines that different regulations may made from one Black population group, etc, to the next. Defines the penalties, fines or imprisonment for contravening or failing to comply with the said regulations Defines the amendment of section 13(1) of the Population Registration Act 30 of 1950 with the text of this section. Defines the amendment of section 14(1) of
221-637: The power of the State President to make regulations that are required by the Act, including the issuance of certificates, taking of fingerprints, issuing duplicate certificates, fees payable and transmission of records to the Black Reference Bureau, provisional certificate or documents, size of photographs and anything else to obtain the objectives of the Act Defines that the powers conferred in section 11(1)(h) are not limited by
238-540: The records officer. Defines the rights of a Black person to object to the Minster's officer if he believes his citizenship has been misclassified as could a territories authority to a Black person's classification. The Ministers officer's final decision was binding except if it was appealed to a Minister and was changed. Defines the penalties, fines, or imprisonment for using someone else's certificate as one's own; not keeping it safe from others; forges or alters it; having
255-409: Was the fundamental law of South Africa from during the first non-racial general election on 27 April 1994 until it was superseded by the final constitution on 4 February 1997. As a transitional constitution it required the newly elected Parliament to also serve as a constituent assembly to adopt a final constitution. It made provision for a major restructuring of government as a consequence of
272-415: Was the process by which such a constitution would be adopted. The African National Congress (ANC) insisted that it should be drawn up by a democratically elected constituent assembly , while the governing National Party (NP) feared that the rights of minorities would not be protected in such a process, and proposed instead that the constitution be negotiated by consensus between the parties and then put to
289-604: Was the size of the supermajority that would be required for the assembly to adopt the constitution: the NP wanted a 75 per cent requirement, which would effectively have given it a veto. In April 1993, the parties returned to negotiations, in what was known as the Multi-Party Negotiating Process (MPNP). A committee of the MPNP proposed the development of a collection of "constitutional principles" with which
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