{"id":21346,"date":"2025-12-19T07:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/about-117-malawian-nationals-stranded-in-sa-after-traffic-officials-impounded-their-bus\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:26","slug":"about-117-malawian-nationals-stranded-in-sa-after-traffic-officials-impounded-their-bus","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/about-117-malawian-nationals-stranded-in-sa-after-traffic-officials-impounded-their-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"About 117 Malawian nationals stranded in SA after traffic officials impounded their bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_divRplyFwdMsg\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Some Malawian nationals who were travelling in an overloaded bus are still stranded in Polokwane, in South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Limpopo Province.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">This happens a day after traffic officials impounded the 65 seater\u00a0carrying 117 people on the\u00a0N1\u00a0in\u00a0Polokwane\u00a0and arrested the driver.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The passengers included 15 minors were\u00a0travelling\u00a0from\u00a0Gauteng Province to Malawi.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Stranded passengers Elastin\u00a0Khamanga: &#8220;We are stranded here we didn\u2019t eat since morning till now we are trying to push the owner of the bus but he is just saying just wait.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">All this people are suffering and we are waiting for them to release us, so far police have already released us so that we can go but this bus is not road worthy for long distance.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21347,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-21346","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Overloaded bus still stranded in Polokwane","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21346","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\/21346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25053,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21346\/revisions\/25053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}