{"id":22878,"date":"2019-06-07T21:17:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T21:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22878"},"modified":"2019-06-08T21:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T21:20:18","slug":"south-africa-home-affairs-official-who-defaced-birth-certificate-acted-improperly-says-mkhwebane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-home-affairs-official-who-defaced-birth-certificate-acted-improperly-says-mkhwebane\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: &lsquo;Home affairs official who defaced birth certificate acted improperly,&rsquo; says Mkhwebane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Nico Gous<\/p>\n<p>Home affairs has two weeks to reinstate the ID number of a four-year-old child born in Polokwane and issue him with a new birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>This is in terms of a directive issued by the public protector\u00a0 Busisiwe Mkhwebane, her office said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0The father and his child were improperly prejudiced by the conduct of the department,\u00a0\u00bb spokesperson Oupa Segalwe said.<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s father complained after his son\u2019s birth certificate was revoked by the Lebowakgomo home affairs office without reasons being provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0The father is a South African citizen. He had the child with a Zimbabwean national, who held a permanent residence permit &#8230; when the child was born on December 11 2014,\u00a0\u00bb Segalwe said.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sowetanlive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2019-06-07-home-affairs-official-who-defaced-a-birth-certificate-acted-improperly-says-mkhwebane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sowetanlive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2019-06-07-home-affairs-official-who-defaced-a-birth-certificate-acted-improperly-says-mkhwebane\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Nico Gous Home affairs has two weeks to reinstate the ID number of a four-year-old child born in Polokwane and issue him with a new birth certificate. This is in terms of a directive issued by the public protector\u00a0 Busisiwe Mkhwebane, her office said on Friday. \u00ab\u00a0The father and his child were improperly prejudiced [&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":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22878","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-acquisition-par-les-enfants","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22878","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=22878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22880,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22878\/revisions\/22880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}