The slog of getting SA citizenship

Primrose Modisane is, and has always been, a South African. She now has a birth certificate to prove it.

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Her story is sobering. Everyday acts of life that the rest of us take for granted were denied to her. She was unable to get a driver's licence, catch a plane, take a long bus ride, open a bank account or even register her daughter at school.

But her wide smiles this week come from more than those avenues opening up. She now has her dignity.

“The way we were welcomed when we walked into home affairs,” she told our reporter, Sheree Bega. “I can feel that I’m also important, that I have rights and that I’m also a human being.”