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`Home affairs official who defaced birth certificate acted improperly,` says Mkhwebane

Source: Times live, 07/06/2019


Home affairs has two weeks to reinstate the ID number of a
four-year-old child born in Polokwane and issue him with a new birth
certificate.
This is in terms of a directive issued by the public protector
Busisiwe Mkhwebane, her office said on Friday.
`The father and his child were improperly prejudiced by the conduct of
the department,` spokesperson Oupa Segalwe said.
The child’s father complained after his son’s birth certificate was
revoked by the Lebowakgomo home affairs office without reasons being
provided.
`The father is a South African citizen. He had the child with a
Zimbabwean national, who held a permanent residence permit ... when
the child was born on December 11 2014,` Segalwe said.
The father alleged home affairs issued the birth certificate on
January 5 2015 but when he approached Sassa to apply for a child
support grant he was referred back to home affairs to confirm the
validity of the certificate.
`On arrival at the department’s Lebowakgomo office, an official
allegedly defaced the certificate of the child by writing the words
‘cancelled’ across the certificate. The official then advised the
father that she was cancelling the certificate on the department’s
system,` Segalwe said.
Mkhwebane found the child had SA citizenship because his father was
South African and said that home affairs had erred by not
investigating the complaint.
`The cancellation of the child’s certificate accompanied by the
request that the father undertake a paternity test were improper and
had no basis in law,` Segalwe said.
Mkhwebane directed that home affairs must within two weeks:
• Reinstate the ID number;
• Reissue the birth certificate; and
• The acting DG must apologise in writing.
`The acting director-general must also ensure that an internal
investigation is conducted to ascertain the identity of the official
who destroyed the child’s birth certificate and take appropriate
action within 60 working days and that staff at the Lebowakgomo office
are trained on departmental prescripts and the provisions of PAJA
within 90 working days of this report to avoid recurrence of this
matter,` Segalwe said.


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