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South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates

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116 points mooreds | 1 comments | 14 Oct 25 01:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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stroebs ◴[21 Oct 25 14:12 UTC] No.45656069[source]▶
My father (born in ZA) had to re-register his birth at 65 when emigrating to the UK on a visa. The ZA government had no record of his birth, despite him having a drivers license, passport, tax returns for 40+ years…

This is the least bit surprising coming from a country that is in steady decline.

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returningfory2 ◴[21 Oct 25 16:27 UTC] No.45657783[source]▶
What is ZA? Zambia?
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1. SideburnsOfDoom ◴[21 Oct 25 16:34 UTC] No.45657849[source]▶
"ZA" is the standard two-letter country code for South Africa.

in the same code list, "SA" refers to Saudi Arabia, and Zambia is "ZM".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2