{"id":34457,"date":"2026-05-14T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34457"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:41:17","slug":"plane-carrying-300-ghanaians-set-to-leave-sa-soon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/plane-carrying-300-ghanaians-set-to-leave-sa-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane carrying 300 Ghanaians set to leave SA soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><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);\">Ghana&#8217;s High Commissioner to South Africa (SA), Benjamin Anani Quashie has confirmed that a plane carrying 300 Ghanaians is due to depart from SA any day now.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Quashie said Accra may avail more flights to any Ghanaians who feel unsafe in SA following anti-illegal immigrant protests and targeted economic disruptions in several cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Tensions reached a breaking point following a viral video showing a Ghanaian national being accosted and harassed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Since then, local groups have reportedly seized property and shop keys from foreign traders, including Ghanaians in areas like Estcourt in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20534,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34457","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"About 300 Ghanaians due to depart from SA","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34457","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\/34457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34458,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34457\/revisions\/34458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}