{"id":33266,"date":"2026-04-29T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33266"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:58:23","slug":"tanzania-envoy-dismisses-xenophobia-claims-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzania-envoy-dismisses-xenophobia-claims-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania envoy dismisses xenophobia claims in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania&#8217;s High Commissioner to South Africa (SA) James Bwana, says Tanzanians living in the country are safe, dismissing viral social media claims of xenophobic attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy in Pretoria, Gauteng Province, says misleading videos have caused panic among families back home.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the Tanzanian High Commission in Pretoria are urging calm after viral videos claimed to show Tanzanians attacked in SA.<\/p>\n<p>They say the clips are outdated or misidentified, with no verified evidence of Tanzanians being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Community leaders, \u00a0including representatives of the Tanzanian diaspora in Pretoria, \u00a0say the misinformation has caused fear, calling for action against those spreading false content.<\/p>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y0DT94AtnDk?si=092fAtsUI5QutjWI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33267,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-33266","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Tanzania dismiss viral social media claims of xenophobic attacks","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33266","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\/33266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33268,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33266\/revisions\/33268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}