{"id":36939,"date":"2026-06-12T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36939"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:01:13","slug":"36939","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/36939\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Home affairs deports 980 undocumented Malawians, largest group so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The South African (SA) Home Affairs Department has confirmed that more than 900 undocumented Malawians found to be living in the country illegally were deported from the country <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">on Thursday night<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This follows the repatriation of over 100 Malawians and Mozambicans earlier this week from the Western Cape.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Their repatriation came amid fears of violence, following protests against illegal immigration across the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">SA Home Affairs Spokesperson Thulani Mavuso says Thursday\u2019s group was the largest of undocumented Malawians deported so far.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cAs part of our law enforcement operations through our inspectorate to look for people who are in the country illegally and process them through our deportation process.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Mavuso says, \u201cLike last night, we deported the biggest number of people from Malawi. They were about 980 that we had to deport last night. It was the biggest contingent. So as we speak, we can confirm that we have deported 980 Malawians and we\u2019ll continue to do so throughout the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15264,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-36939","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"This follows the repatriation of over 100 Malawians and Mozambicans earlier this week from the Western Cape.","published_date":"","news_description":"This follows the repatriation of over 100 Malawians and Mozambicans earlier this week from the Western Cape.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36939","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36964,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36939\/revisions\/36964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}