Rentia Muller, a Legal Aid South Africa civil legal practitioner based in Aliwal North, sits with the daunting task of finalising about 75 matters of undocumented children from Aliwal North, Sterkspruit and surrounding areas. These children, born in South Africa to Lesotho mothers and South African fathers and vice versa, hold birth registration documents from neither country. This phenomenon is known as statelessness. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees … [Read more...] about Legal Aid SA joins the call to end child statelessness in South Africa
