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noted that allowing persons to become citizens of Namibia without requiring them to
formally reject foreign citizenship could mean that the door would be opened certain
persons with foreign citizenship to join the Namibian Defence Force and even gather
and pass intelligence to enemy forces. The court also observed that if persons that held
foreign citizenship did not renounce it before being granted Namibian citizenship by
naturalisation, they could be elected as Members of the National Assembly or National
Councils, Regional Councils and Local Authority Councils wherein they could fail to
put the interests of Namibia and her people first and they could be compromised by
loyalty to a foreign State. The court also noted that security concerns for a dual citizen
could arise in the field of employment. Therefore, the court concluded that such
security considerations meant that those that sought to gain Namibian citizenship by
naturalisation had to renounce their foreign citizenship.
CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALITY RIGHTS CASE DIGEST
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