{"id":31397,"date":"2021-03-15T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=31397"},"modified":"2021-03-15T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:49:26","slug":"south-africa-i-gave-up-when-they-told-me-that-i-wouldnt-be-able-to-write-matric-without-an-id-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-i-gave-up-when-they-told-me-that-i-wouldnt-be-able-to-write-matric-without-an-id-book\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: \u201cI gave up when they told me that I wouldn\u2019t be able to write matric without an ID book\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>People who find themselves stateless in South Africa struggle to rectify their situation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Marecia Damons<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwean-born Primrose Modisane has been living in South Africa for 20 years without an ID or birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s difficult because I can\u2019t open a bank account. I can\u2019t apply for any social grants. I can\u2019t walk around freely without the fear of being arrested by police. If you\u2019re sick you cannot go to the hospital because they will ask for an ID,\u201d she says. (By law, hospitals have to treat undocumented people. &#8211; Editor)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStatelessness is essentially an acute violation of the right to citizenship. A stateless person is a foreigner everywhere and a citizen nowhere. You are not recognised as a citizen in any country,\u201d said Thandeka Chauke of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR).<\/p>\n<p>The organisation, together with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHRA) briefed the Department of Home Affairs parliamentary portfolio committee about statelessness in South Africa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>LHR says people of mixed parentage, orphaned and abandoned infants, adults whose births have never been registered, and undocumented long-term migrants are most at risk of being stateless \u2013 someone who is not considered a national of any state.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/i-gave-up-when-they-told-me-that-i-wouldnt-be-able-to-write-matric-without-an-id-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/i-gave-up-when-they-told-me-that-i-wouldnt-be-able-to-write-matric-without-an-id-book\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People who find themselves stateless in South Africa struggle to rectify their situation By Marecia Damons Zimbabwean-born Primrose Modisane has been living in South Africa for 20 years without an ID or birth certificate. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult because I can\u2019t open a bank account. I can\u2019t apply for any social grants. I can\u2019t walk around freely [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-676","item-theme-acquisition-par-les-enfants","item-theme-apatridie","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31397","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=31397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31398,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31397\/revisions\/31398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}