PRESS STATEMENT BY PRINCE MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI MP, PRESIDENT OF THE INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY
RELEASED FROM TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
Having served as Minister of Home Affairs for the first ten years of democracy, I feel frustrated by the position expressed by the ANC that it intends “instructing” Government to change South Africa’s citizenship laws to remove dual citizenship, purely on the basis that a few South Africans are also citizens of Israel, and a few among them may be receiving military training in Israel.
At present, citizenship laws in South Africa dictate that:
“Unless you have been granted retention of your South African citizenship prior to acquiring another citizenship, you will lose your South African citizenship automatically if you are 18 years and older and are serving in the armed forces of another country (where you are also a citizen) and that country is at war with South Africa.”
South Africa is not at war with Israel.