Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970

Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970
Parliament of South Africa
Long title Act to provide for citizenship of certain Bantu homelands and for the issue of certificates of citizenship to Bantu persons; in connection therewith to amend certain laws; and to provide for incidental matters.
Citation	Act No. 26 of 1970
Enacted by	Parliament of South Africa
Assented to	3 March 1970
Commenced	26 March 1970
Repealed	27 April 1994
Administered by	Minister of Bantu Administration and Development
Repealed by
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993
Status: Repealed

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 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.