{"id":11482,"date":"2017-01-17T22:11:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:42:20","slug":"south-africa-no-school-wants-to-take-in-stateless-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-no-school-wants-to-take-in-stateless-child\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: No school wants to take in stateless child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Hannes Kruger<\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg &#8211; The 8-year-old girl who was forced to take off her shirt in front of all her classmates because her mother couldn\u2019t afford the prescribed shirt, hasn\u2019t been able to go back to school yet.<\/p>\n<p>No schools want to accept her because she is stateless, Netwerk24 reported. She was born in South Africa, but isn\u2019t registered because her mother is stateless. Her father, however, is a South African.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has the child\u2019s interests at heart,\u201d said Sophia Welz, who employs the girl\u2019s mom.<\/p>\n<p>According to Welz an independent school had accepted the youngster after she\u2019d been taken out of The Metropolitan College in the Johannesburg CBD because of the shirt incident.<\/p>\n<article id=\"article-body\" class=\"clr_left\">Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/no-school-wants-to-take-in-stateless-child-20170117\">http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/no-school-wants-to-take-in-stateless-child-20170117<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_header\">\n<div class=\"article_details\">\n<div class=\"ByLineWidth\">\n<p class=\"left\">Related articles:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col300 right\">\n<div id=\"relatedlinks_box\" class=\"spacer clr\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/public-steps-in-to-help-8-year-old-who-was-told-to-take-her-shirt-off-in-class-20161128\" data-track=\"Articles,no-school-wants-to-take-in-stateless-child-20170117,RelatedLinks-public-steps-in-to-help-8-year-old-who-was-told-to-take-her-shirt-off-in-class-20161128\">Public steps in to help 8-year-old who was told to take her shirt off in class<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/poor-pupil-allegedly-made-to-take-non-regulation-shirt-off-in-class-20161122\" data-track=\"Articles,no-school-wants-to-take-in-stateless-child-20170117,RelatedLinks-poor-pupil-allegedly-made-to-take-non-regulation-shirt-off-in-class-20161122\">Poor pupil allegedly made to take non-regulation shirt off in class<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Hannes Kruger Johannesburg &#8211; The 8-year-old girl who was forced to take off her shirt in front of all her classmates because her mother couldn\u2019t afford the prescribed shirt, hasn\u2019t been able to go back to school yet. No schools want to accept her because she is stateless, Netwerk24 reported. She was born in [&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-11482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482","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=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11551,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions\/11551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}