{"id":10878,"date":"2016-10-31T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2016-11-16T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:56:24","slug":"department-of-home-affairs-implements-new-birth-certificate-travel-requirements-for-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/department-of-home-affairs-implements-new-birth-certificate-travel-requirements-for-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"DHA streamlines birth certificates to ease minor travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Louzel Lombard<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town &#8211; The Department of Home Affairs has scrapped having two versions of the birth certificate, an abridged (issued for new-borns up until 2013) and an unabridged birth certificate detailing both parents details (issued to all new-borns since 2014).<\/p>\n<p>From Tuesday, 1 November, newborns in South Africa will be issued only a single document stating both their maternal and paternal birth details.<\/p>\n<p>The document will be known as only a &#8216;birth certificate&#8217;, as opposed the the previous &#8216;unabridged&#8217; or &#8216;abridged birth certificate&#8217; options.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/traveller24.news24.com\/TravelPlanning\/VisaInfo\/dha-streamlines-birth-certificates-to-ease-minor-travel-20161031\" target=\"_blank\">more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Louzel Lombard Cape Town &#8211; The Department of Home Affairs has scrapped having two versions of the birth certificate, an abridged (issued for new-borns up until 2013) and an unabridged birth certificate detailing both parents details (issued to all new-borns since 2014). From Tuesday, 1 November, newborns in South Africa will be issued only [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"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-10878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","region-southern-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-birth-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10924,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}