Home affairs admits gap in tracking dual citizens
Early Breakfast with Africa Melane · 4 June 2026 · 5m
Speaker 1: The Monday to Friday four in six am on seven o two and Kate Talk. Speaker 2: South African citizenship system is under the spotlight after Home Affairs confirmed it cannot fully Speaker 2: track dual citizens. This follows a Constitutional court ruling that removed the requirement to declare Speaker 2: foreign nationality. As immigration tensions rise and political pressures built, we unpeck what it means Speaker 2: for governance, accountability and public trust. Sunday Lestwana is no stranger to our show, his Speaker 2: political analyst and he joins us briefly to give us some insights on this story. Speaker 2: Thanks for your time, mister Swana really appreciated. Good morning, Welcome to Cape Talk seven Speaker 2: o. Speaker 1: Two Morning Travel and Mornings. Speaker 2: Morning said, what are the real world risks of not having a consolidated data base Speaker 2: for dual citizens? This sounds very serious coming from Home Affairs. Speaker 1: On the one hand, you know, just to give a quick example, we have South Speaker 1: Africans who live in the US with dual citizenship who in many ways have been Speaker 1: campaigning the campaign in South Africa in the US. So the loyalties of a given Speaker 1: person in parliament and need to be known, or the potential loyalties of the person. Speaker 1: They just generally need to be known. Number two. Even with with with Trump as Speaker 1: an example, you have situations where billionaires can say a lot and even find political Speaker 1: campaigns in your country, and then before you know it, they live the country for Speaker 1: political reasons. They live trying to go and join us another country. So the extent Speaker 1: to which a…
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