mar 26, 1970 - The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act

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In 1970, the government decreed that all Black South Africans were citizens on the homelands, and not of the Republic of South Africa.

This in effect meant that million of South Africans - Blacks who did not live in the homelands - immediately became foreigners in their own country, under constant threat of deportation and being dumped in the Bantustans.

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