Citizenship Reform: Interim Constitution Accord
Implementations
Citizenship Reform – 1993
“South Africa’s white-dominated parliament passed into a law a bill restoring citizenship to millions of blacks stripped of their rights under apartheid” on December 15, 1993.1 Almost seven million people living in the four homelands (Ciskei, Bophuthatswana, Transkei and Venda ) were deprived of their citizenship when the territories accepted independence from Pretoria, starting with Transkei in 1976 and ending with Ciskei in 1981. This bill would allow them also to vote in the first non-racial election. The bill was one of a package of legislations presented by the multi-party democracy talk.2
- “South Africa’s parliament restores citizenship to blacks,” Agence France Presse — English, December 15, 1993.
- ibid.
Citizenship Reform – 1994
Citizenship provision was implemented in 1993.
Citizenship Reform – 1995
No further developments observed.
Citizenship Reform – 1996
No further developments observed.
Citizenship Reform – 1997
No further developments observed.
Citizenship Reform – 1998
No further developments observed.
Citizenship Reform – 1999
No further developments observed.
Citizenship Reform – 2000
No further developments observed.
Citizenship Reform – 2001
No further developments observed.
Citizenship Reform – 2002
No further developments observed.