{"id":14346,"date":"2017-09-03T17:46:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=14346"},"modified":"2017-09-06T17:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:49:23","slug":"south-africa-home-affairs-adamant-girl-cannot-get-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-home-affairs-adamant-girl-cannot-get-id\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Home Affairs adamant girl cannot get ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Home Affairs is adamant that a Port Elizabeth couple should have their four-year-old foster child registered as a citizen of Lesotho if they want to adopt her \u2013 insisting that she would not be recognised as a South African.<\/p>\n<p>This despite a court order compelling the department to recognise the little girl, who was born in Krugersdorp, as a South African citizen and provide her with an identity document and number.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of international law, her adoption will not be allowed until she is officially recognised as a citizen of either country.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Home Affairs has to date refused to comply with the court order, officials saying they believed the court order was \u201clegally incompetent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldlive.co.za\/news\/2017\/09\/03\/home-affairs-adamant-girl-cannot-get-id\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.heraldlive.co.za\/news\/2017\/09\/03\/home-affairs-adamant-girl-cannot-get-id\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Home Affairs is adamant that a Port Elizabeth couple should have their four-year-old foster child registered as a citizen of Lesotho if they want to adopt her \u2013 insisting that she would not be recognised as a South African. This despite a court order compelling the department to recognise the little girl, [&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-14346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-acquisition-by-children"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346","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=14346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14347,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions\/14347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}