{"id":37112,"date":"2026-06-15T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37112"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:39:00","slug":"sas-united-civic-movement-supports-action-on-migrants","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-united-civic-movement-supports-action-on-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s United Civic\u00a0Movement supports action on migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The United Civic Movements in South Africa (SA) which is an umbrella body representing 21 civic organisations, says communities have the right to act against undocumented migrants through citizen&#8217;s arrests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The organisation made the remarks during a media briefing held in response to President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s recent comments warning SA citizens against taking the law into their own hands when dealing with illegal migration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The group says illegal migration is placing pressure on jobs and public services and is calling for stronger enforcement measures while demanding that all undocumented migrants leave the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Convener and President of the Progressive Forces, Mthetho Nqcukaitobi, says communities are entitled to carry out citizen&#8217;s arrests under the Criminal Procedure Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32836,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-37112","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA undocumented migrants","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37112","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\/37112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37113,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37112\/revisions\/37113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}