Advocates for learners without birth certificates who have been barred from schools argue that the state is punishing them for circumstances beyond their control.
The voices of 37 children barred from school because they have no birth certificates will be heard at the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda this week when they argue, on behalf of themselves and almost a million other "undocumented" children, that they are entitled to a basic education. Without education, they say, they will be condemned to a life "on the margins of society".
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