{"id":1628,"date":"2004-07-31T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/07\/31\/\/"},"modified":"2004-07-31T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2004-07-31T14:40:20","slug":"no-ring-no-groom-but-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/no-ring-no-groom-but-married\/","title":{"rendered":"No ring, no groom, but married!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iafrica.com\/highlife\/herlife\/features\/338587.htm\" rel=\"external\">LATEST SCAM:<\/a><\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/Bronwyn-Gower.jpg\" alt=\"Bronwyn Gower\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>&#8220;South African student Bronwyn Gower got the shock of her life when she turned up at the home affairs office this month to replace her stolen identity card and was told that she was married. She was informed that her chosen one was Fabian Oshi, born May 1, 1978 who appeared to be a Nigerian national. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A total of 3387 complaints have been filed since 2001 by women who have been married to foreign nationals from Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan, China, India and Brazil who allegedly paid about R5000 (\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd670) to corrupt home affairs officials for a marriage certificate that will lead to South African citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The government is launching a campaign beginning next week to encourage South African women to check their marital status at their local home affairs ofice a special desk will be set up to handle the status checks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/wedding-rings.jpg\" alt=\"wedding rings\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>Bronwyn&#8217;s &#8220;big day&#8221; allegedly took place in Mhala, a village close to the border with Mozambique and Swaziland, on April 14, when South Africa held elections and all government offices were closed. Because the marriage took place on that date, Bronwyn, was able to get a quick annulment.<\/p>\n<p>Other women are not so lucky. Many only learned of their new status when they turned up to register their &#8220;real marriage&#8221; and were told that they had to divorce their first husband or face charges of bigamy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iafrica.com\/highlife\/herlife\/features\/338587.htm\" rel=\"external\">The full story&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST SCAM:&#8220;South African student Bronwyn Gower got the shock of her life when she turned up at the home affairs office this month to replace her stolen identity card and was told that she was married. She was informed that her chosen one was Fabian Oshi, born May 1, 1978 who appeared to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}