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South Africa’s one million invisible children without birth certificates
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 Home Affairs. Living without a birth certificate restricts access to healthcare and education in South Africa. On the continent, more than half of Africa’s children under five lack any form of legal identity.
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