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 Self Determination or 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. Content of the Act The following is a brief description of the sections of the Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970: Definitions and interpretation Section 1 Defines the explanations of keywords in the Act. Section 2.1 Defines that there is a citizenship for every homeland or self-governing territory. Section 2.2 Defines that every Black person in the Republic, if not already classified to a homeland or self-governing territory, shall be a citizen of one of these homelands or self-governing territory. Section 2.3 Defines that a person classified to a particular homeland or self-governing territory has the right to vote there. Section 2.4 Defines that even though a person is a citizen of a particular homeland or self-governing territory, they were still a citizen of the Republic in relation to international law. Section 2.5 Defines that duties, obligation or responsibilities of a person classified to a homeland or self-governing territory are not relieved of except what is described by the Act. Section 3 Defines the citizenship procedures of a Black person is currently in a homeland or self-governing territory. Section 4 Defines the loss of citizenship of one homeland or self-governing territory if they become a citizen of another. Section 5 Defines that a Black people in a homeland or self-governing territory shall be entitled to a citizenship certificate. Section 6 Defines that the certificate would be issued to any Black person who is a citizen of a homeland or self-governing territory, a provisional certificate issue if a full certificate can't be issued immediately and that requirements be made known by whatever means to Black people in the Republic Section 7 Defines the forms, photographs, and information required to be issued a certificate as well as what homeland or self-governing territory they belonged too. Section 8 Defines the need for two photographs for certificate to be issued, one of which would remain with the records officer. Section 9 Defines the rights of a Black person to object to the Minster's officer if he believes his citizenship has been misclassified as could a