{"id":36462,"date":"2026-06-08T07:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36462"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:51:19","slug":"sa-president-calls-on-african-leaders-to-assist-the-country-with-migration-issues","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-calls-on-african-leaders-to-assist-the-country-with-migration-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President calls on African leaders to assist the country with migration issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa says SA cannot tackle migration challenges alone and has called for greater cooperation across the continent.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ramaphosa addressed the nation on migration issues on Sunday night.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He says while the country will work to tighten immigration laws and policies, he will be sending envoys to other countries to work on a combined solution.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThrough Southern African Development Community, the African Union and our bilateral relations with other countries, we will seek to find sustainable solutions to these challenges. As part of this effort, I will be sending envoys to a number of sister African countries to outline the measures that we are announcing this evening and to deal comprehensively with the issue of migration in cooperation with those countries.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34277,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-36462","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"SA cannot tackle migration challenges alone: Ramaphosa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36462","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\/36462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36463,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36462\/revisions\/36463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}