{"id":42564,"date":"2025-08-05T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42564"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:40:31","slug":"south-africa-after-a-decades-long-struggle-and-a-court-order-primrose-modisane-finally-has-a-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-after-a-decades-long-struggle-and-a-court-order-primrose-modisane-finally-has-a-birth-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: After a decades-long struggle and a court order, Primrose Modisane finally has a birth certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stateless since birth, she was called a \u201cborder hopper\u201d by Home Affairs officials<\/p>\n<p>By Tania Broughton<\/p>\n<p>Primrose Modisane, who has endured a life of statelessness and a decades-long battle with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), has finally received her South African birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Pretoria High Court Judge Mandla Mbongwe ruled in April that Home Affairs must issue Modisane, who was represented in court by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), with a birth certificate within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>But this did not happen. Only five months later, and after Modisane, LHR and retired Constitutional Court Judge Johann Kriegler scheduled a media briefing to publicly shame DHA on Tuesday, did the department finally comply with the court order.<\/p>\n<p>Modisane will now be able to apply for a South African Identity Document, allowing her to vote, access grants, and enrol her children in school.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/groundup.org.za\/article\/after-decades-long-struggle-court-order-primose-modisane-finally-has-birth-certificate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/groundup.org.za\/article\/after-decades-long-struggle-court-order-primose-modisane-finally-has-birth-certificate\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stateless since birth, she was called a \u201cborder hopper\u201d by Home Affairs officials By Tania Broughton Primrose Modisane, who has endured a life of statelessness and a decades-long battle with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), has finally received her South African birth certificate. Pretoria High Court Judge Mandla Mbongwe ruled in April that Home [&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-42564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-698","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42564","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=42564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42566,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42564\/revisions\/42566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}