{"id":11466,"date":"2017-01-12T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T11:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2017-01-16T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T10:43:31","slug":"teen-attempts-suicide-after-failing-to-get-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/teen-attempts-suicide-after-failing-to-get-birth-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Teen attempts suicide after failing to get birth certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A 13-year-old Durban girl was rushed to hospital after she allegedly attempted to commit suicide as she cannot enrol for high school because she does not have a birth certificate.<br \/>\nAndiswa Mkhize, who was supposed to start Grade 8, says attempts to get a birth certificate have failed as the Home Affairs Department declares her as deceased.Her mother Thembisile Mkhize says when she applied for Andiswa&#8217;s birth certificate back in 2003, the department issued her with a death certificate instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/news\/a\/a20bd8804facdf3e8dc5edbb2479388a\/Teen-attempts-suicide-after-failing-to-get-birth-certificate-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old Durban girl was rushed to hospital after she allegedly attempted to commit suicide as she cannot enrol for high school because she does not have a birth certificate. Andiswa Mkhize, who was supposed to start Grade 8, says attempts to get a birth certificate have failed as the Home Affairs Department declares her [&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-11466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","region-southern-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466","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=11466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11476,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions\/11476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}