{"id":36889,"date":"2022-11-16T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36889"},"modified":"2022-11-19T19:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T19:17:23","slug":"south-africa-mps-question-home-affairs-hefty-dna-test-costs-for-migrant-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-mps-question-home-affairs-hefty-dna-test-costs-for-migrant-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: MPs question Home Affairs\u2019 hefty DNA test costs for migrant kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Babalo\u00a0Ndenze<\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN \u2013 Members of Parliament (MPs) said they&rsquo;re worried about the high cost of DNA tests that prevent migrants from registering the birth of their children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2022\/11\/15\/home-affairs-dept-structurally-xenophobic-parly-told\">Lawyers for Human Rights <\/a>told the Home Affairs portfolio committee this week that the digitisation of the registration system and other requirements make it almost impossible for migrants to get documented.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Human Rights told Parliament that the Department of Home Affairs is \u201cstructurally xenophobic\u201d because of its exclusively online registration system.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2022\/11\/16\/mps-question-home-affair-s-hefty-dna-test-costs-for-migrant-kids\">https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2022\/11\/16\/mps-question-home-affair-s-hefty-dna-test-costs-for-migrant-kids<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Babalo\u00a0Ndenze CAPE TOWN \u2013 Members of Parliament (MPs) said they&rsquo;re worried about the high cost of DNA tests that prevent migrants from registering the birth of their children. Lawyers for Human Rights told the Home Affairs portfolio committee this week that the digitisation of the registration system and other requirements make it almost impossible [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-683","item-theme-enregistrement-des-naissances"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889","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=36889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36898,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889\/revisions\/36898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}