Citation Act No. 26 of 1970 Date commenced 26 March 1970 | Date assented to 3 March 1970 Date repealed 27 April 1994 | |
Administered by Minister of Bantu Administration and Development | ||
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970 (Act No. 26 of 1970; subsequently renamed the Black States Citizenship Act, 1970 and the National States Citizenship Act, 1970) was a Self Determination or denaturalization law passed during the apartheid era of South Africa that allocated various tribes/nations of black South Africans as citizens of their traditional black tribal "homelands," or Bantustans.
The act was repealed on 27 April 1994 by the Interim Constitution of South Africa.
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Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA