Mother challenges home affairs
(World News South Africa)

Chantel* was only 15 years old when she hopped the Eswatini-South African border in early 2007. She says she lived her whole life in an orphanage in Manzini, never knew her biological parents and never saw her birth certificate. Abuse was rife. `The conditions were unbearable. We were not properly cared for. We were frequently physically disciplined,` she says. `I lived in fear; I suffered significant emotional and psychological distress.` Unable to tolerate the abuse, she started siphoning off some of the money she earned from selling detergents to fundraise for the orphanage. When she had enough, she took a bus to the border and a customs officer helped her cross over. She says she knew it...