{"id":38378,"date":"2026-06-30T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38378"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:49:17","slug":"sacc-appeals-for-calm-ahead-of-planned-marches","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sacc-appeals-for-calm-ahead-of-planned-marches\/","title":{"rendered":"SACC appeals for calm ahead of planned marches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The South African Council of Churches (SACC) has called for calm ahead of planned marches taking place across the country today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Addressing the media in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, the council urged SA citizens to tackle the country&#8217;s challenges peacefully.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">SACC warned against violence, hate speech and actions that could deepen divisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Encouraging organisers, participants and law enforcement agencies to work together to ensure that the demonstrations remain peaceful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38379,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-38378","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SACC has called for calm ahead of planned marches","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38378","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\/38378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38380,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38378\/revisions\/38380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}