Court ruling will ‘open floodgates’

Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana says a recent Supreme Court judgement in a citizenship case will “open the floodgates for every child born in Namibia to claim citizenship”.
The Supreme Court ruled on 23 June that a child born in Namibia to a Dutch couple who are here on work permits must be granted Namibian citizenship.
In a bid to circumvent the Supreme Court’s order to grant the child a birth certificate within 30 days, the home affairs ministry and the attorney-general’s office sought to amend the law.
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