Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempted to deport illegal aliens from these countries on the grounds that they are economic, not political refugees. This distinction disqualifies them from receiving citizenship under the Refugee...
South Africa reconsiders citizenship and pass laws. A KGB official defects, and Britain expels 25 Soviets. A Thai coup foiled...
...address before a provincial congress of his ruling National Party in Bloemfontein, Botha declared that South Africa would henceforth grant citizenship to those blacks who live in the country's urban areas but are nominal citizens of the four "independent" homelands created within the boundaries of South Africa over the past nine years. A day later, a presidential commission recommended to Botha the scrapping of "influx control" regulations, or pass laws, by which the movements of South African blacks have been controlled since...
...those who reside in the black townships of white South Africa. The government had previously said that the 4 million blacks in the latter category could continue to live legally outside their respective homelands. Last week Botha added that they would be permitted to regain their South African citizenship. As for the 5 million who reside inside the "independent" homelands, Botha proposed that they be given dual citizenship. Importantly, however, he insisted that the government was not abandoning the homelands policy and that "the sovereignty of these states is not in dispute...
...year for the vastly smaller colored (mixed race) and Indian communities. Thus, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu dismissed the latest proposals as a "crumb" and as "piecemeal reform, grudgingly given." Still, in the South African context, last week's announcements represented some progress. Welcoming the government's shift on its citizenship policy, the leader of the white parliamentary opposition, Dr. Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, declared, "It signals the end of the apartheid dream but poses the challenge of doing away with the apartheid reality...