Budd too young for disclaimer
NZPA-AP Johannesburg The runner, Zola Budd, could not renounce her South African citizenship until she turned 21, a Government official said yesterday.
Budd, who is 17, has orally renounced her South African citizenship since taking British citizenship in April. A report in the “Rand Daily Mail” yesterday quoted the Internal Affairs Ministry as saying that she remained a South African. Asked to comment on the report, Joh Pretorius, head of the civic affairs branch in the Ministry, said that the law did not permit
minors under the age of 21 to renounce their citizenship. If they took on another country’s citizenship they remained dual nationals until their twenty-first birthday.
Mr Pretorius said that the only way she could formally lose her South African citizenship was if her father renounced it on her behalf, “and we have had no such application.” The issue of Budd’s nationality could determine her eligibility to run for Britain in the Olympics at Los Angeles. South Africans are barred from the Olympics because of apartheid.
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