{"id":23748,"date":"2019-08-13T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=23748"},"modified":"2019-10-04T23:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T23:14:45","slug":"south-africa-family-of-six-no-longer-has-to-survive-on-one-old-age-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-family-of-six-no-longer-has-to-survive-on-one-old-age-pension\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Family of six no longer has to survive on one old age pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sibahle Siqathule<\/p>\n<p>Mayor and government intervene to help Flagstaff family get IDs, social grants and a better home<\/p>\n<p>In May GroundUp reported how the six member family of 80-year-old Nothembinkosi Nontsasa had to live off her old age pension in two crumbling one-roomed mud houses in Flagstaff, Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>Her children could not get ID documents and were unable to get social grants for her grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>The family has now received a temporary housing structure and IDs after the Ingquza Hill Local Municipality and the departments of Human Settlements and Home Affairs intervened.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/family-six-no-longer-has-survive-one-old-age-pension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/family-six-no-longer-has-survive-one-old-age-pension\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sibahle Siqathule Mayor and government intervene to help Flagstaff family get IDs, social grants and a better home In May GroundUp reported how the six member family of 80-year-old Nothembinkosi Nontsasa had to live off her old age pension in two crumbling one-roomed mud houses in Flagstaff, Eastern Cape. Her children could not get [&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-23748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23748","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=23748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23749,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23748\/revisions\/23749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}