{"id":38278,"date":"2026-06-29T08:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38278"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:16:23","slug":"sa-parties-reject-anti-immigration-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-parties-reject-anti-immigration-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"SA parties reject anti-immigration shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Several South African (SA) political parties have rejected calls for a nationwide shutdown planned for Tuesday by groups campaigning against illegal immigration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They argue that immigration laws should be enforced through legal processes and have warned that the planned action could trigger violence.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Security agencies remain on high alert after organisations including March and March and Operation Dudula declared June 30 as their deadline for undocumented migrants to leave the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The groups have staged demonstrations across SA in recent weeks, with some protests turning violent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33325,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-38278","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Several SA political parties have rejected calls for a nationwide shutdown","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38278","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\/38278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38279,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38278\/revisions\/38279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}