Home Affairs bureaucracy: Woman can’t get an ID or register her child’s birth Tashreeqa Isaacs’s life is mired in red tape because of an error that happened 18 years ago. Tashreeqa Isaacs from Rosedale in Kariega (Uitenhage), pictured with her child, has not been able to get an identity document or register her baby because she has the same name and date of birth as someone else. Picture: Thamsanqa Mbovane/GroundUp
Tashreeqa Isaacs, 18, has been unable to get an identity document and as a result can’t register her baby.
According to her mother, Isaacs was mistakenly registered as male and later discovered that there is a man with the same name and date of birth as her.
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