{"id":22925,"date":"2019-06-07T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T10:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22925"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:29:43","slug":"south-africa-report-no-27-of-201920-on-an-investigation-into-allegations-of-maladministration-by-the-department-of-home-affairs-in-respect-of-the-alleged-improper-revocation-of-a-minor-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-report-no-27-of-201920-on-an-investigation-into-allegations-of-maladministration-by-the-department-of-home-affairs-in-respect-of-the-alleged-improper-revocation-of-a-minor-child\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Report no 27 of 2019\/20 on an investigation into allegations of maladministration by the Department of Home Affairs in respect of the alleged improper revocation of a minor child\u2019s birth certificate and consequently his South African citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Complainant is a South African citizen who had a child with a Zimbabwean national who held a Permanent Residence Certificate in the Republic at the time the child was born on 11 December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Finds that:<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0The cancellation of the child&rsquo;s birth certificate accompanied by the request that the Complainant undertake a paternity test were improper and had no basis in law. The Department infringed the child&rsquo;s constitutional right to citizenship. Furthermore, the Department&rsquo;s conduct contravened the constitutional injunction to treat the child&rsquo;s best interests with paramount importance in every matter concerning a child.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Download report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pprotect.org\/?q=content\/report-no-27-201920-investigation-allegations-maladministration-department-home-affairs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pprotect.org\/?q=content\/report-no-27-201920-investigation-allegations-maladministration-department-home-affairs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Complainant is a South African citizen who had a child with a Zimbabwean national who held a Permanent Residence Certificate in the Republic at the time the child was born on 11 December 2014. Finds that: \u00ab\u00a0The cancellation of the child&rsquo;s birth certificate accompanied by the request that the Complainant undertake a paternity test [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-cours-nationales","type-organismes-gouvernementaux","type-rapports","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\/22925","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=22925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36072,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22925\/revisions\/36072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}