{"id":32289,"date":"2021-07-06T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32289"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:44:07","slug":"south-africa-struggle-to-get-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-struggle-to-get-id\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Struggle to get ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kensington matric learner and deputy head girl of her school says her right to education is being violated.<\/p>\n<p>Karolyn Mujinga (18) was born in South Africa to a Congolese mother.<\/p>\n<p>But she says for the past two years she has been unsuccessful in her attempts to get an Identity Document (ID). The only document the teen currently has is her unabridged birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Mujinga says when she turned 18, she was excited because she had high hopes that her luck would change. But instead, she was told that she must apply for South African citizenship; a process which Mujinga describes as lengthy and full of dead ends.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Home Affairs\u2019 website, refugee reception centres will remain closed (due to the pandemic) and refugees are requested to make use of the department\u2019s online service platform.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/SouthAfrica\/Local\/Peoples-Post\/struggle-to-get-id-20210705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/SouthAfrica\/Local\/Peoples-Post\/struggle-to-get-id-20210705<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kensington matric learner and deputy head girl of her school says her right to education is being violated. Karolyn Mujinga (18) was born in South Africa to a Congolese mother. But she says for the past two years she has been unsuccessful in her attempts to get an Identity Document (ID). The only document [&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-32289","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-de-la-nationalite","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports","item-theme-nationalite-et-des-refugies","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289","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=32289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32290,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289\/revisions\/32290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}