Definition:
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act (National States Citizenship Act) No 26 of 1970 (assent gained 26 March) required that all South African Blacks become citizens of one of the self-governing territories.
"No Black person will eventually qualify [for South African nationality and the right to work or live in South Africa] because they will all be aliens, and as such, will only be able to occupy the houses bequeathed to them by their fathers, in the urban areas, by special permission of the Minister." Connie Mulder, South African Information and Interior Minister, 1970.
Repealed by the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act No 200 of 1993.
