Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970

Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970
Parliament of South Africa
Long title Act to provide for citizenship of certain Bantu homelands and for the issue of certificates of citizenship to Bantu persons; in connection therewith to amend certain laws; and to provide for incidental matters.
Citation	Act No. 26 of 1970
Enacted by	Parliament of South Africa
Assented to	3 March 1970
Commenced	26 March 1970
Repealed	27 April 1994
Administered by	Minister of Bantu Administration and Development
Repeals
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993
Status: Repealed

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 designated all black South Africans as citizens of the black "homelands," or Bantustans, even if they didn't actually live in their designated homeland. The effect of this law was to strip blacks of their South African citizenship, though nearly all of their rights as citizens had been removed 11 years earlier with the Bantu Self-Government Act. The aim was to ensure that white South Africans came to make up the majority of the de jure population.

The act was repealed on 27 April 1994 by the Interim Constitution of South Africa.

External links

• African History: Apartheid Legislation in South Africa

See also

• Reich Citizenship Law
• Citizenship
• Bantustan
• Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act
• Second-class citizen
• History of South African Nationality