Johannesburg - Renowned thespian Pamela Nomvete is facing a predicament over the renewal process of her passport.
She says her South African passport has recently expired and now she is being sent from pillar to post to renew it.
"This year my South African passport expired and now I am trying to renew it. I am literally being told all over again to prove my South African citizenship and produce my late parents' documents, namely, their birth cetificates and ID documents," said the seasoned actress.
The request to produce her biological parents' documents is not viable, she says, as they "are now on the ancestral plain".
The Dancing To The Beat Of The Drum author - an autobiography detailing her rise and fall from fame - has shared her frustration over the matter on a lengthy post on Instagram recently.
Nomvete says that she is being denied her dual citizenship status which she acquired in 1994 when she relocated from the United Kingdom to South Africa.
"In 1994 I went to my ancestral land South Africa having been in exile and acquired my South African citizenship so I could vote for a black majority government. The South African government welcomed us exiles, happy for us to hold dual citizenship," she said.
Nomvete's claim to fame was the villainous character of Ntsiki Lukhele - which everybody loved to hate - during the heydays of the long running South African soapie, Generations, in the late 1990s.
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