{"id":32326,"date":"2021-07-08T08:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T08:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32326"},"modified":"2021-07-12T08:18:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T08:18:02","slug":"south-africa-petition-for-the-department-of-home-affairs-to-cater-for-stateless-matrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-petition-for-the-department-of-home-affairs-to-cater-for-stateless-matrics\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Petition for the Department of Home Affairs to cater for stateless matrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Murphy Nganga<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town \u2013 A heartbroken matriculant from Kensington High School initiated a petition to request that the Department of Home Affairs establish a matric ID or citizenship helpline for stateless children who are yet to write their finals.<\/p>\n<p>Born in South Africa to foreign national parents, Karolyn Mujinga, 18, has an unabridged birth certificate without an ID.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past two years, I\u2019ve tried several times to apply for an ID, however the results has always been unsuccessful. Currently, I only have my unabridged birth certificate and that is not deemed valid anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith my petition I am calling on the Department of Home Affairs to create a citizenship helpline or provision for South African born refugees in South Africa to be able to apply for citizenship, so that I and many others like me can have equal opportunities,\u201d Mujinga said.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/weekend-argus\/news\/petition-for-the-department-of-home-affairs-to-cater-for-stateless-matrics-cc6a6075-fb57-4dac-8ab7-f6d2e292b9f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/weekend-argus\/news\/petition-for-the-department-of-home-affairs-to-cater-for-stateless-matrics-cc6a6075-fb57-4dac-8ab7-f6d2e292b9f8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Murphy Nganga Cape Town \u2013 A heartbroken matriculant from Kensington High School initiated a petition to request that the Department of Home Affairs establish a matric ID or citizenship helpline for stateless children who are yet to write their finals. Born in South Africa to foreign national parents, Karolyn Mujinga, 18, has an unabridged [&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-32326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326","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=32326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32327,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326\/revisions\/32327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}