אובדן אוטומטי - שירות בכוחות מזוינים זרים במלחמה עם הרפובליקה (s6(1)(b)/s6(3))

A South African citizen who also holds another country's nationality ceases to be a citizen if he or she serves in that country's armed forces while it is at war with the Republic (s6(1)(b) of the Citizenship Act 88 of 1995). A parallel ground under s6(3) applies to a naturalised citizen who engages, under another country's flag, in a war that the Republic does not support. These narrow war-service grounds remain operative and were unaffected by the striking-down of the automatic-loss rule in s6(1)(a).

Timeline: automatic. Document burden: n/a. Required: none of residency/language/presence/renunciation.

• s6(1)(b) is a narrow, still-operative auto-loss ground: a South African citizen who, under the laws of another country, ALSO holds that country's nationality and serves in its armed forces WHILE that country is at war with the Republic, ceases to be a South African citizen. (Unaffected by the s6(1)(a) strike-down.)