Key Recomendations 1. Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954) and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961). 2. Establish a National Action Plan (NAP) to end statelessness in South Africa. 3. Review and amend all legislation, regulations and policies relevant to access to citizenship and birth registration to ensure their full conformity with the Constitution and relevant international human rights law. 4. Publish and/or finalise regulations to give effect to section 2(2) of the Citizenship Act which provides access to citizenship for stateless children and section 4(3) for children born in South Africa to non-citizen parents. 5. Take further measures to reduce and ultimately eradicate existing cases of statelessness, particularly among children, including through retroactive implementation of safeguards to provide a nationality to stateless children born on the territory, and through ensuring that the loss, deprivation or renunciation of the parent’s nationality does not result in the deprivation of the child’s nationality.