
Phillip Plaatjes
Phillip Plaatjes is a Cape Town-born accountant whose personal experience with dual citizenship laws was highlighted in a recent constitutional court ruling, which declared the automatic loss of South African citizenship upon acquiring another nationality as unconstitutional.
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South Africa:
Phillip Plaatjes lost his citizenship because of the impugned provision when he obtained citizenship in the United Kingdom in 2007 through naturalisation.
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South Africa:
Phillip Plaatjes's plight was recounted in an affidavit attached to the pleadings of the Democratic Alliance.
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