Domestic workers 17 year fight for identity

A NIGHTMARE journey of more than 17 years came to an end last week for a 36-year-old domestic worker who has been in a battle with the Department of Home Affairs to obtain a birth certificate so that she could ultimately get an ID document.

- ZELDA VENTER

Primrose Medisane, both a birth certificate and ID document within 30 days, to show its dismay with the department for the manner it treated Medisane over the years, the court slapped the department with a punitive costs order.

Medisane told the court that the consequences for stateless women are dire. The women in her family have suffered human rights violations. Medisane, who was a clever learner at school and wanted to become a social worker, could not take her matric exams. Instead, she had to become a domestic worker, her mother died of write my matric without an ID document?