{"id":31093,"date":"2026-04-08T11:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31093"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:56:51","slug":"six-children-among-undocumented-migrants-deported-by-bma-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/six-children-among-undocumented-migrants-deported-by-bma-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Six children among undocumented migrants deported by BMA in SA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Border Management Authority (BMA) in South Africa (SA) says six children intercepted while crossing illegally into SA at the Beitbridge border in Limpopo province have been reunited with their parents and deported to Zimbabwe.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The children, aged between 7 and 12, were intercepted with the assistance of the South African National Defence Force.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Authorities say their parents were also undocumented and attempting to enter the country illegally.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>BMA Assistant Commissioner Doctor Nkhuliseni Luvhengo says the Department of Social Development was involved in the process.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe have engaged with the Department of Social Development. Based on the discussion that they had at the interviews that they had with the children, they found that three children obviously had one parent, and then the other children also had parents that were travelling with them, because there was a confirmation that they had parents,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe didn\u2019t place them under a place of safety. We had to, unfortunately, deport them together with their parents, because they didn\u2019t have all the travel documentation,\u201d said Luvhengo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14770,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-31093","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Authorities say their parents were also undocumented and attempting to enter the country illegally.","published_date":"","news_description":"Authorities say their parents were also undocumented and attempting to enter the country illegally.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31093","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\/31093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31094,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31093\/revisions\/31094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}