{"id":38311,"date":"2026-06-29T14:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38311"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:26:49","slug":"authorities-racing-to-clear-sa-province-repatriation-site-before-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/authorities-racing-to-clear-sa-province-repatriation-site-before-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities racing to clear SA province repatriation site before Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawian and South African (SA) authorities are racing to clear Durban\u2019s old Drive-In repatriation site before Tuesday\u2019s protest against undocumented foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Buses have been transporting Malawian nationals from KwaZulu-Natal province to a temporary repatriation centre in Musina, Limpopo province<\/p>\n<p>The Durban transit site closed on Sunday and is no longer accepting new arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have halted verification and are relocating only those already processed.<\/p>\n<p>Many waiting to board the buses say they are relieved to be leaving Durban ahead of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel relieved because on the 30th, we were so afraid, but now we feel relieved because we are with the police and they are helping us, and there are a lot of buses, and it looks like we are going home today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15264,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-38311","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Officials have halted verification and are relocating only those already processed.","published_date":"","news_description":"Officials have halted verification and are relocating only those already processed.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38311","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38333,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38311\/revisions\/38333"}],"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=38311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}