{"id":35593,"date":"2026-05-27T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35593"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:21:32","slug":"foreign-nationals-take-sa-municipality-to-court","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/foreign-nationals-take-sa-municipality-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign nationals take SA municipality to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">A group of foreign nationals is taking the Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality in Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (SA), to court over allegations that the municipality forced them to close their businesses.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The group is expected to file an urgent application against the municipality and its mayor in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg this Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Organisations, including anti-illegal immigration group March and March, as well as local business owners, are expected to show solidarity with the municipality and the mayor during the court proceedings.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16035,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-35593","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The group is expected to file an urgent application against the municipality and its mayor in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg this Wednesday.","published_date":"","news_description":"The group is expected to file an urgent application against the municipality and its mayor in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg this Wednesday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35593","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\/35593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35594,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35593\/revisions\/35594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}