{"id":37734,"date":"2026-06-22T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37734"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:02:46","slug":"sa-acting-police-minister-defence-minister-meet-to-clarify-security-plans-ahead-of-june-30","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-acting-police-minister-defence-minister-meet-to-clarify-security-plans-ahead-of-june-30\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Acting Police Minister, Defence Minister meet to clarify security plans ahead of June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia is meeting with Defence Minister Angie Motshekga at the South African Police Service (SAPS) Gauteng Provincial Office in Johannesburg, to clarify the security strategies in anticipation of the nationwide demonstrations scheduled for June 30.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The discussions come amid escalating tensions surrounding undocumented immigrants and renewed calls for a national shutdown by the March and March movement, which has been calling for stricter action against undocumented migrants.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The closed-door meeting follows high-level discussions by the Justice, Crime Prevention, and Security Cluster at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, Gauteng Prvince, on the rising wave of anti-illegal immigration protests throughout the country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Government asserts that it is intensifying efforts to uphold law and order ahead of the upcoming June 30 demonstrations.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Ministers are expected to provide updates following Monday\u2019s meeting.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12909,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-37734","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Nationwide demonstrations ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37734","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\/37734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37735,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37734\/revisions\/37735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}