Immigrants must be given health care even if undocumented, health department confirms: A number of immigrants in Makhanda say they were denied health care Source: GroundUp News. “I gave up when they told me that I wouldn’t be able to write matric without an ID book”: People who find themselves stateless in South Africa struggle to rectify their situation Source: GroundUp News. Home Affairs bureaucracy: Woman can’t get an ID or register her child’s birth: Tashreeqa Isaacs’s life is mired … [Read more...] about Immigrants must be given health care even if undocumented, health department confirms – News from GroundUp
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Report: Undocumented Students Generated $133 Million in Emergency Aid, but They Won’t Receive a Penny – Lockdown News
Report: Undocumented Students Generated 3 Million in Emergency Aid, but They Won’t Receive a Penny: An estimated half-million undocumented students enrolled in colleges and universities generated up to $ 132.6 million in COVID-19 federal stimulus emergency aid ... Source: "Coronavirus Lockdown" - BingNews. Lockdown: Citizens have right to sue govt – Ramaphosa: As legal challenges to the South African government’s coronavirus lockdown mount, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday he could … [Read more...] about Report: Undocumented Students Generated $133 Million in Emergency Aid, but They Won’t Receive a Penny – Lockdown News
Grahamstown News: SAHRC joins litigation on ‘rights of education for undocumented learners’
SAHRC joins litigation on 'rights of education for undocumented learners': MAKHANDA, June 3 (ANA) - The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) has been allowed to join a matter before the Grahamstown High Court in which the applicants are taking the Minister of ... Source: "Grahamstown" - BingNews. SAHRC joins undocumented learner education case: The commission has been allowed to join as an amicus curiae in the matter of Centre for Child Law and 25 others v Minister of Basic … [Read more...] about Grahamstown News: SAHRC joins litigation on ‘rights of education for undocumented learners’
Grahamstown News: Thousands of ‘undocumented’ children being deprived of basic right to education
Thousands of ‘undocumented’ children being deprived of basic right to education: In December, the Grahamstown High Court in the Eastern Cape handed down a judgment that found that the right to a basic education could not be extended to undocumented children. Last week ... Source: "Grahamstown" - BingNews. Boomtown announces the launch of the 'Seven Wonders Bucket List': "Our 'Seven Wonders' are Addo, Baviaanskloof and the Gamtoos Valley, Grahamstown, Jeffreys Bay and St Francis, the Karoo, … [Read more...] about Grahamstown News: Thousands of ‘undocumented’ children being deprived of basic right to education
Grahamstown News: The undocumented children denied the right to go to school
The undocumented children denied the right to go to school: On 10 December 2018, the Grahamstown High Court, in its capacity as upper guardian of all children, dismissed the urgent application, with the court upholding some of the department’s technical points ... Source: "Grahamstown" - BingNews. Anti-apartheid fighter, author and TRC official Hugh Lewin — a man who never gave up: This influence was among the reasons he wanted to take the cloth after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree at … [Read more...] about Grahamstown News: The undocumented children denied the right to go to school
Legal Aid SA joins the call to end child statelessness in South Africa
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
