Further Recommendations
6. Provide that children found abandoned in the territory of South
Africa (foundlings) acquire the South African nationality.
7. Put in place policies, programmes, strategies and plans of action for
dissemination of information on the importance of birth registration
countrywide.
8. Identify all undocumented USMCs in the care system and establish a
special dispensation or exemption permit for USMCs in South Africa, as
well as for those who were USMC’s placed in a CYCCs but have since
reached the age of majority.
9. Establish a statelessness determination mechanism and
documentation procedure.
6. Take measures to remove barriers to a well managed, resourced,
integrated, universal, free and accessible birth registration system.
7. Establish an inter-agency coordination unit in charge of the oversight
of the whole integrated civil registration system.
8. Keep open lines of communication with civil society including LHR.