{"id":40856,"date":"2024-06-29T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T08:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=40856"},"modified":"2024-07-02T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T08:11:13","slug":"south-africa-disregard-for-human-rights-frozen-ids-still-not-unblocked-by-home-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-disregard-for-human-rights-frozen-ids-still-not-unblocked-by-home-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: \u2018Disregard for human rights\u2019 \u2013 Frozen IDs still not unblocked by home affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Home Affairs fails court order, leaving 700,000 IDs blocked amid fraud suspicions unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>By Masoka Dube<\/p>\n<p>The department of home affairs (DHA) has failed to implement a court ruling instructing it to release some of the identity documents (ID) that were blocked on suspicions of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a judgment was handed down by the high court stating home affairs blocking more than 700 000 IDs was unlawful as the department had not followed proper procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), which represented more than 100 people, claimed none of its clients\u2019 IDs had been unblocked in the stipulated 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the administrative process, the department was ordered to obtain a court order to block the IDs which were suspected to be fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>LHR\u2019s Thandeka Chauke told Saturday Citizen their clients were frustrated, as the 90 days lapsed on Tuesday and there had been no communication from the department.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/disregard-for-human-rights-frozen-ids-still-not-unblocked-by-home-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/disregard-for-human-rights-frozen-ids-still-not-unblocked-by-home-affairs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Home Affairs fails court order, leaving 700,000 IDs blocked amid fraud suspicions unresolved. By Masoka Dube The department of home affairs (DHA) has failed to implement a court ruling instructing it to release some of the identity documents (ID) that were blocked on suspicions of fraud. In January, a judgment was handed down [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-695","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40856","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=40856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40858,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40856\/revisions\/40858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}