{"id":197595,"date":"2025-05-07T12:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-all-of-africa-today-may-7-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:09:14","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-may-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-all-of-africa-today-may-7-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; May 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><strong>South African Constitutional Court Strikes Down Law Stripping Citizenship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"120\">The Constitutional Court <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505070073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> the unconstitutionality of a section of the South African Citizenship Act that automatically stripped South Africans of their citizenship upon acquiring citizenship in another country. In a unanimous decision, the court struck down the relevant section of the South African Citizenship Act, declaring it invalid from its promulgation in October 1995.\u00a0 The court also declared that affected&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505070114.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 South African Constitutional Court Strikes Down Law Stripping Citizenship The Constitutional Court confirmed the unconstitutionality of a section of the South African Citizenship Act that automatically stripped South Africans of their citizenship upon acquiring citizenship in another country. In a unanimous decision, the court struck down the relevant section of the South African Citizenship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4509,257,254,6637],"class_list":["post-197595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}