Nearly 100,000 children born during the lockdown do not have birth certificates.
Home affairs spokesperson Siya Qoza said all birth registrations stopped when the lockdown started but registration services had resumed a week ago.
The institute’s programme manager Paula Proudlock said the impact of not having a child’s birth registered was huge, given that a mother cannot register for child support grants unless the child's birth is registered. Qoza said home affairs officers involved in birth registrations started going back to work last week, but only at 30% of capacity.
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