{"id":1006027,"date":"2022-02-28T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/28\/home-affairs-has-robbed-me\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T11:25:08","slug":"home-affairs-has-robbed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/28\/home-affairs-has-robbed-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Home affairs has robbed me."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Kekulo Dikobo claims she is not a gogo, and she has no intention of becoming one. She is requesting that Home Affairs correct her identification. Kgomotso Medupe captured this image.<\/p>\n<p>She was born in 1972, making her 50 years old, but the Department of Home Affairs maintains she is ten years younger!<\/p>\n<p>The agitated lady from Refilwe, Tshwane, told the Daily Sun that her identification card said that she was born in 1962, which was causing her distress.<\/p>\n<p>She complained that she was weary of being made fun of by people her own age, and that the situation had made her afraid to even celebrate her birthday because she felt embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make it clear to the public that I am not a gogo, but rather a younger person who is still required to work to support her family.\u201d I believe that the Department of Home Affairs has taken my life and job away from me. Despite the fact that I am still employed, my ID indicates that I am 60 years old, requiring me to take early retirement while I am still in my prime,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kekulo said that she attempted to resolve the issue at the Lebowakgomo and Cullinan Home Affairs offices, but that authorities were unwilling to assist her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agency needs to obtain data related to her application as part of the process of settling the situation,\u201d said Siya Qoza, a spokesperson for Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe department will get in contact with her as soon as it has completed its investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source:https:\/\/www.dailysun.co.za\/News\/home-affairs-has-robbed-me-20220227<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: WHITEMANCONFESSION (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kekulo Dikobo claims she is not a gogo, and she has no intention of becoming one. She is requesting that Home Affairs correct her identification. Kgomotso Medupe captured this image. She was born in 1972, making her 50 years old, but the Department of Home Affairs maintains she is ten years younger! The agitated lady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}