{"id":17034,"date":"2018-04-13T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=17034"},"modified":"2018-04-13T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:47:16","slug":"migrants-born-in-sa-to-get-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/migrants-born-in-sa-to-get-birth-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants born in SA to get birth certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Xolisa Phillip<\/p>\n<p>Children born in SA to undocumented migrants are entitled to home affairs-issued birth certificates, in what is a major victory for migrants and the Legal Resources Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The centre announced on Thursday that, after much \u00ab\u00a0back and forth\u00a0\u00bb with the Department of Home Affairs, the department\u2019s \u00ab\u00a0director of births, marriages, deaths and records management confirmed that [it was] &#8230; best to [issue] the DHA-19 birth certificate &#8230;\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>However, the birth certificate does not entitle its recipients to citizenship in SA.<\/p>\n<p>The centre intervened after being approached by a Congolese asylum seeker whose newborn son was refused a birth certificate by home affairs officials at the hospital where the baby was born.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2018-04-13-migrants-born-in-sa-to-get-birth-certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/national\/2018-04-13-migrants-born-in-sa-to-get-birth-certificates\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Xolisa Phillip Children born in SA to undocumented migrants are entitled to home affairs-issued birth certificates, in what is a major victory for migrants and the Legal Resources Centre. The centre announced on Thursday that, after much \u00ab\u00a0back and forth\u00a0\u00bb with the Department of Home Affairs, the department\u2019s \u00ab\u00a0director of births, marriages, deaths and [&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":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-642","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17035,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17034\/revisions\/17035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}