{"id":11083,"date":"2016-12-02T17:14:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2016-12-06T23:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T23:25:06","slug":"south-africa-civil-registration-a-human-right-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-civil-registration-a-human-right-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Civil Registration a Human Right, Says Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria \u2014 Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says policies and legislation have been developed to continue to ensure an efficient civil registration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In South Africa, the right to a name, identity, citizenship and to be registered at birth is a universal human right and is guaranteed in section 28 of the Constitution,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the signing of the partnership agreement between the Department of Home Affairs and Procter &amp; Gamble at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, Minister Gigaba said it is encouraging that the South African government, through the Department of Home Affairs, has prioritised civil registration.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/south-africa\/civil-registration-human-right-says-minister\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/south-africa\/civil-registration-human-right-says-minister<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pretoria \u2014 Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says policies and legislation have been developed to continue to ensure an efficient civil registration. &#8220;In South Africa, the right to a name, identity, citizenship and to be registered at birth is a universal human right and is guaranteed in section 28 of the Constitution,&#8221; he said. Speaking [&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-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-birth-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","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=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11089,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions\/11089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}