{"id":10569,"date":"2016-10-26T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=10569"},"modified":"2016-10-28T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:07:06","slug":"south-africa-lrc-challenges-failure-of-home-affairs-to-register-child-born-to-foreign-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-lrc-challenges-failure-of-home-affairs-to-register-child-born-to-foreign-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: LRC challenges failure of Home Affairs to register child born to foreign mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Legal Resources Centre has launched an application in the Grahamstown High Court on behalf of two parents whose application to register their child\u2019s birth has been rejected by the Department of Home Affairs\u2019 because the child\u2019s mother does not have a valid visa and is therefore considered \u201cillegal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Naki\u201a a South African citizen\u201a works for the South African National Defence Force and met his wife when he was sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on a peace keeping mission. On his second visit to DRC the couple got married.<\/p>\n<p>They have two children together \u2013 the oldest is currently living in the DRC.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/2016\/10\/26\/LRC-challenges-failure-of-Homet-Affairs-to-register-child-born-to-foreign-mother\">http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/2016\/10\/26\/LRC-challenges-failure-of-Homet-Affairs-to-register-child-born-to-foreign-mother<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Legal Resources Centre has launched an application in the Grahamstown High Court on behalf of two parents whose application to register their child\u2019s birth has been rejected by the Department of Home Affairs\u2019 because the child\u2019s mother does not have a valid visa and is therefore considered \u201cillegal\u201d. Lawrence Naki\u201a a South African citizen\u201a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10572,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions\/10572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}