engaging with culture today
Are you aching for home?
Magriet Cruywagen
Before I moved to Glasgow in 2021, I lived and worked in Germany for almost 12 years.
As a native South African, I qualified to apply for German citizenship after a couple of years. There was, however, an important caveat. I would have to renounce my South African citizenship as part of the process. To many of my loved ones this was a no-brainer: “Do it,” they said, “a German passport is far more useful than a green mamba” – as we fondly refer to our bottle-green passports.