The Supreme Court of Appeal recently ruled that the automatic loss of South African citizenship after gaining citizenship in another country is unconstitutional.
In a unanimous ruling, it further ordered that South Africans who lost their citizenship through the application of the specific section in the Citizen Act, since its operation from 1995, “are deemed not to have lost their citizenship”, according to a GroundUp report.
The challenge to the legislation was brought by the DA, whose arguments were initially dismissed by the Pretoria High Court before being granted leave to appeal. The ruling was handed down in mid-June by Judge Dumisani Zondi.
“The DA brought the application on
