maintenance from the court when in fact he knows that she does not have any identification particulars making it difficult and impossible to access any maintenance. She has tried to use fake witnesses so as to get a birth certificate but she alleges that some RG’s personnel have asked her give them $1 million Zimbabwean dollars for them to process her birth certificate but she does not have that kind of money. CASE HISTORY EIGHT (4) Interview of Girl (13 years) - Grade 7 - Dendera Village, Hurungwe District XXX is a 13 year old child at Maumbe Primary School. She is in Grade 7 and does not have a birth certificate. Her father died in 1995 and her mother remarried. She stays with her grand mother. Efforts to register her birth were made by her mother and grandmother but were unsuccessful because there were no witnesses from the father’s side. Her baby card is in her father’s surname. Efforts to locate the father’s relatives have been unsuccessful. The RG’s office gave them an option to go and register in Harare (Makombe Building) but because they have no source of income, they have not been able to go there. Birth Registration Research Report/2007 51