Thursday, October 10, 2013

Home Affairs Department partners with Agri-SA in registering births in farms

Mluleki Mrwebi
10 October 2013

Minister of Home Affairs Naledi Pandor today announced a collaboration between the department and AGRI-SA. 

Pandor said the joint venture’s main aim is to make the registration of births on farms easier for parents, farmworkers and home affairs officials. 

The minister added that one of the most worrying fact for the department is the many people who are unregistered in the world. 

Pandor said half the children born in the world today remain unregistered, two thirds of deaths are unregistered and the reasons for that are that there is lack of laws, lack of infrastructure for mandating the registration of these.

Meanwhile Minister Pandor said the department is also trying to mobilise the country and inform them about the importance of the register, early registration of birth and the fight against corruption over fraudulent birth death and marriage registration. 

Minister Pandor said working with Agri-SA we can avoid a situation that came in 2012, whereby a 80 year-old woman who had never been registered in a farm in the Western Cape and that woman had never been off the farm.  

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