{"id":12537,"date":"2025-10-06T11:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/processes-in-place-to-return-sa-citizens-who-were-detained-by-israel-officials\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:51","slug":"processes-in-place-to-return-sa-citizens-who-were-detained-by-israel-officials","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/processes-in-place-to-return-sa-citizens-who-were-detained-by-israel-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Processes in place to return SA citizens who were detained by Israel officials\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) International Relations Department has given the assurance that processes are under way to return the SA citizens who were on board the Flotilla to Gaza back home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Over 100 activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla were deported to Turkiye after being intercepted and detained\u00a0at sea, while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They include the late former President Nelson Mandela&#8217;s grandson Mandla Mandela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">International Relations Department Spokesperson\u00a0Chrispin Phiri says: &#8220;Our specialist, SA team met with the SA delegation who are currently detained in an Israeli prison facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The delegation has confirmed that the detainees are in good health and in high spirit. The necessary procedures for the safe passage and return home to SA\u00a0are advancing steadily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12538,"template":"default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-12537","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-5f9odYse4?si=by5TLZYLiX6JYtc9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>||<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-5f9odYse4?si=by5TLZYLiX6JYtc9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>||<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-5f9odYse4?si=by5TLZYLiX6JYtc9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>||<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-5f9odYse4?si=by5TLZYLiX6JYtc9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18097,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12537\/revisions\/18097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}