South Africa: Orphan’s 10-Year Battle To Get A Birth Certificate
Published: 28/Nov/2017
Source: GroundUp
By Barbara Maregele
For the past ten years, Bronwyn Moss and her family have been battling to register an orphaned child with the Department of Home Affairs.
Moss, from Mooinooi in North West, is in a Catch-22: she has been advised to adopt the child in order to get his documents, but she cannot adopt without documents proving who he is.