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Christy Chitengu's journey from stateless teen to legal advocate
Daily Maverick
|August 08, 2025
Born in Johannesburg to Zimbabwean parents, Christy Chitengu lived, as she puts it, in legal limbo from an early age.
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Chitengu was in Grade 11 when she discovered that she would not be able to write her exams and matriculate because she was stateless — a person who is not considered a citizen of any country — despite being born and spending her entire life in South Africa.
Instead of letting the threat to her right to access basic education go unchallenged, she took up the fight in 2019. With the help of Lawyers for Human Rights, she pushed the Department of Home Affairs to enforce Section 4 (3) of the South African Citizenship Act, which declared persons over the age of 18 born of non-South African parents in South Africa to be citizens.
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