Learners from a Gauteng school have been struggling to get their IDs from Home Affairs for years, with the department not interested in helping the disabled students
Learners from Itumeleng school in Gauteng have been struggling to get their IDs from Home Affairs for years. Photo suppliedThe future is uncertain for 18-year-old Dudu Setoe who has never had a birth certificate or an Identity Document despite many back-and-forths to Home Affairs offices. Although Setoe recently came first in an in-house athletics competition, she is unable to compete provincially or nationally because she can’t present these crucial documents.
Setoe was never registered at birth. Her mother is deceased and her father is unknown. Her foster parent, Armando Setoe, said to GroundUp that he and the school have been trying to get her ID for four years but that they are now at their wits’ end.
In one case the high cost of a DNA test of a family member is prohibiting a learner from getting his ID.Chauke said that Lawyers for Human Rights have dealt with many cases that are similar to this. But this case is a “huge concern”, she said, because it involves particularly vulnerable children who are denied access to their human rights.
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