Christy Chitango
speaker
12 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Jan
Christy Chitango’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Millions of dollars pour in, but the families never receive the money.
World of Secrets, the child cancer scam, from the BBC World Service.
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And... Citizenship is not a reward.
It's an entitlement for someone to be able to live a dignified life and for someone to be seen as a human being.
I found out I was stateless at the age of 17.
My high school principal called me into her office and told me that I don't have any documents for you and I don't understand how you got into the school.
I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to two foreign parents and at my birth I was given a handwritten South African birth certificate.
I couldn't claim my Zimbabwean citizenship because by that time I was 16 and without any documents to leave the country I wouldn't be allowed back in.
Citizenship is not a reward.
It's an entitlement for someone to be able to live a dignified life and for someone to be seen as a human being.
And I think if we look at it through that lens, we realize that there's nothing that we lose by recognizing a child who would otherwise not be able to go to primary school, who otherwise would not be able to receive health care.
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