{"id":22601,"date":"2019-05-24T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22601"},"modified":"2019-05-25T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T11:04:21","slug":"south-africa-blocked-id-hell-for-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-blocked-id-hell-for-man\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Blocked ID hell for man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nokuthula Khanyile<\/p>\n<p><em>Hilton College Farm dweller Edward Thusi says his life has been halted since Home Affairs blocked his ID.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Home Affairs says that a local man\u2019s South African citizenship is in dispute, despite him being in possession of a green ID book and having been born in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Thusi\u2019s identity document has been blocked and Home Affairs has directed him to do a DNA test to verify that he is his South African father\u2019s true son.<\/p>\n<p>Thusi was born on the Hilton College Farm in 1960. His mother was a Lesotho national, but his father was South African, and he told The Witness that as far as he knows, he is also a South African citizen.<\/p>\n<p>His parents have died.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/blocked-id-hell-for-man-20190523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/blocked-id-hell-for-man-20190523<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nokuthula Khanyile Hilton College Farm dweller Edward Thusi says his life has been halted since Home Affairs blocked his ID. Home Affairs says that a local man\u2019s South African citizenship is in dispute, despite him being in possession of a green ID book and having been born in the country. Edward Thusi\u2019s identity document has [&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-22601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-660","item-theme-apatridie","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601","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=22601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22604,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601\/revisions\/22604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}