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Langa teen left without a school for three years due to Home Affairs bungle
By Sisonke Mlamla
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Cape Town - A 15-year-old girl from Langa has been struggling to get placement in high schools after her parents were alerted that her birth certificate was wrongly documented and stated her as a boy.
Liyema Sohuma, who was born in the New Somerset hospital in September 2005, last went to school three years back after she passed her Grade 7 at Luthuthu primary school in the Eastern Cape, where she stayed with her grandparents.
Her mother, Fezeka Sohuma, 33, said she had been struggling to get a school for Liyema because she was allegedly told that her birth certificate was wrongly documented. She decided to bring her to Cape Town after she was advised to go back to the hospital where she gave birth so they could fix the problem.