Frederik Ngubane, 22, returned to South Africa, the country of his birth, in 2009, after spending his entire childhood in Kenya and Uganda. An orphan, Ngubane had lost all contact with his South African relatives, and soon after arriving in the country he also lost his birth certificate, the only document proving his South African nationality. He has spent four years living as a stateless person, and is now losing hope that his situation will ever change. \u201cMy mother was South African and so was my father, but he died in 1993, and then my mother [and I] moved to Kenya. I grew up there until my mother died in 2002, and then I moved to Uganda with my aunt. \u201cWhen my aunt died, I came back to South Africa to try to connect with relatives. I wasn\u2019t in contact with them, but I knew where they lived; I thought it would be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n