{"id":39514,"date":"2023-10-02T08:19:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=39514"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:21:02","slug":"south-africa-blocked-id-woman-blames-home-affairs-for-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/south-africa-blocked-id-woman-blames-home-affairs-for-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Blocked ID: Woman blames home affairs for heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Masoka Dube<\/p>\n<p>A Limpopo woman who previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry blames her poor heart condition, which resulted in her undergoing surgery on the Department of Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>This was as a result of a \u201cflawed\u201d identity document (ID) assigned to her by the department.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Shingange, 46, of Nkowankowa in Tzaneen, says the department, which she compared to \u201cSatan\u201d, cost her the capacity to earn a living more than 10 years ago after it unfairly blocked her ID.<\/p>\n<p>She says her struggles are far from over, despite her ID being ultimately restored three years ago. \u201cI\u2019m a dead woman walking. It is painful to be unemployed because of home affairs\u2019 poor decision 13 years ago. Aside from lost work opportunities, I am still a victim. Home affairs, in my opinion, is worse than Satan. They devastate your life and then moved on as if they were angels.<\/p>\n<p>read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/news\/blocked-id-woman-blames-home-affairs-for-heart-surgery\/\">https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/news\/blocked-id-woman-blames-home-affairs-for-heart-surgery\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Masoka Dube A Limpopo woman who previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry blames her poor heart condition, which resulted in her undergoing surgery on the Department of Home Affairs. This was as a result of a \u201cflawed\u201d identity document (ID) assigned to her by the department. Elizabeth Shingange, 46, of Nkowankowa in Tzaneen, says [&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-39514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-691","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39514","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=39514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39515,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39514\/revisions\/39515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}