Up until 2013, any South African-born child was issued with an abridged version only.After 2013, however, the unabridged South African birth certificate came into being and was the one ...

Young boys play soccer on a dusty field at Ramaphosa informal settlement, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon ...

An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth registration, with some people waiting for seven years for a response from ...

In 2017, Elizabeth Jardine and her family were denied boarding at Manchester airport and forced to spend an additional £4,000, because they had the wrong type of birth certificate for their eight ...

“Because of my experience, I know the importance of having both parents on a birth certificate. I don’t want my son to grow up like I did and have to fight to prove he exists.” Just like his father, 6 ...

The Department of Home Affairs will scrap its controversial birth certificate rules for travellers. ... by 2016, after many complaints and a huge knock to South Africa’s tourism numbers, ...

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Njabulo Nzuza on Friday handed over 100 birth certificates and identity documents to successful late birth registration applicants in Mabopane, north of Tshwane.

The South Africa Cabinet announced it will be introducing amendments to regulations applying to foreign minors traveling to South Africa. After over three years of tireless lobbying by SATSA and ...

Caster Semenya's birth certificate clearly states she is female The BBC has seen the birth certificate of South African athlete Caster Semenya, which states that the new 800m world champion is female.

Caster Semenya's birth certificate clearly states she is female The BBC has seen the birth certificate of South African athlete Caster Semenya, which states that the new 800m world champion is ...