{"id":19499,"date":"2018-08-01T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19499"},"modified":"2018-08-20T08:04:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T08:04:58","slug":"prove-sa-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/prove-sa-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Prove SA citizenship\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Nompilo Kunene<\/p>\n<p>Home Affairs say that a local man\u2019s South African citizenship is in dispute, despite him being in possession of a green ID book, and having lived in South Africa since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Wynand van der Walt said after he applied for a Smart ID Card recently, Home Affairs officials questioned his citizenship when he went to collect it. They refused to give it to him or refund him for it.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Walt was born in Zimbabwe but his father is South African. The family moved to SA in the 1980s and as far as he knows, he is a South African citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/prove-sa-citizenship-20180731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/prove-sa-citizenship-20180731<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Nompilo Kunene Home Affairs say that a local man\u2019s South African citizenship is in dispute, despite him being in possession of a green ID book, and having lived in South Africa since the 1980s. Wynand van der Walt said after he applied for a Smart ID Card recently, Home Affairs officials questioned his citizenship [&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-19499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499","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=19499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19500,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions\/19500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}