{"id":38204,"date":"2026-06-27T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38204"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:33:36","slug":"sa-opposition-criticises-33-3-million-police-budget-for-june-30-deployment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-opposition-criticises-33-3-million-police-budget-for-june-30-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"SA opposition criticises $33.3 million police budget for June 30 deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ActionSA party has strongly criticised the South African Police Service (SAPS) for setting aside R600 million ($33.3 million) to beef up security ahead of planned anti-illegal immigration protests on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Several civic movements have declared June 30 as a deadline for undocumented immigrants to leave the country. In response, SAPS announced a massive security deployment, including partnerships with private security companies, to maintain stability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ActionSA&#8217;s Zandile Dabula has slammed the expenditure as an unnecessary waste of state resources, arguing that the government is panicking over an unconfirmed threat while neglecting everyday crime in communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How did we even get to that R600 million when they don&#8217;t even know what is going to happen on the day?&#8221; Dabula questioned. &#8220;Nobody has said that we will be marching, nobody said that there is going to be violence. As ActionSA we don&#8217;t condone violence, but we are so against what the government is doing. People are unsafe in their communities on a daily basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38205,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26,305],"class_list":["post-38204","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","news-type-special-projects","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South African opposition criticises multi million rand police budget for June 30 deployment","published_date":"2026-06-27 13:32:08","news_description":"South African opposition criticises multi million rand police budget for June 30 deployment","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38204","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\/38204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38206,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38204\/revisions\/38206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}