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If you are older than 18, you don't need your parents' permission.
Home Affairs online asylum renewal process has not yet started.
You may need legal intervention to compel Social Services to issue the required documentation for Home Affairs.
You need to apply at the nearest Refugee Reception Office, but all the offices are closed during lockdown.
You may need legal assistance
If you are younger than 21, you would apply to a school by the last day of the first term, for the following year.
Unfortunately not. You may want to reach out to Scalabrini.
The Constitutional Court ruled in July 2020 that children born in other countries with at least one South African parent are entitled to citizenship
No. IDs are not being issued during the pandemic, so you may need legal help
He could apply for a number of visas: work, critical skills, life partner or (eventually) a relative visa