{"id":37796,"date":"2023-03-01T20:07:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=37796"},"modified":"2023-03-01T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:07:28","slug":"south-africa-high-court-orders-department-of-home-affairs-to-register-birth-of-stateless-man-after-10-year-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-high-court-orders-department-of-home-affairs-to-register-birth-of-stateless-man-after-10-year-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: High court orders Department of Home Affairs to register birth of stateless man after 10-year battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tamsin Metelerkamp<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Home Affairs has been given 30 days to register the birth of Tebogo Khoza, a stateless man born in South Africa. The Pretoria high court found that since Khoza first attempted to have his birth and status as a South African citizen recognised in 2013, he had been sent from \u2018pillar to post\u2019 by the department \u2014 a situation that forced him to live in limbo.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2023-03-01-high-court-orders-department-of-home-affairs-to-register-birth-of-stateless-man-after-10-year-battle\/\">https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2023-03-01-high-court-orders-department-of-home-affairs-to-register-birth-of-stateless-man-after-10-year-battle\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Tamsin Metelerkamp The Department of Home Affairs has been given 30 days to register the birth of Tebogo Khoza, a stateless man born in South Africa. The Pretoria high court found that since Khoza first attempted to have his birth and status as a South African citizen recognised in 2013, he had been sent [&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-37796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-acquisition-of-nationality","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37796","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=37796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37797,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37796\/revisions\/37797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}