{"id":40386,"date":"2026-07-23T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40386"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:53:01","slug":"sa-minister-welcomes-arrests-over-anti-foreigner-attacks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-minister-welcomes-arrests-over-anti-foreigner-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Minister welcomes arrests over anti-foreigner attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) International Relations and Co-operation Minister, Ronald Lamola, says government welcomes several arrests linked to acts of vigilantism against foreign nationals, saying the enforcement of immigration laws remains the responsibility of the State.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Limpopo Province police arrested five suspects two weeks ago after they allegedly threatened a documented Nigerian business owner, ordering him to close his business and to leave the country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Two other suspects were arrested in Limpopo for impersonating Home Affairs officials and allegedly robbing a Zimbabwean national.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">In the Eastern Cape Province, 69 people were arrested in Jeffreys Bay last week for allegedly looting 23 shops, 60 were released on warning, with nine still in custody.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">In Mpumalanga Province, four people were arrested in Emalahleni two weeks ago after they were found with stolen items, allegedly from a looted foreign-owned spaza shop.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Lamola, who was addressing the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation Winter Seminar in Sandton, Gauteng Province, stressed that concerns about undocumented migrants does not give private citizens the authority to enforce immigration laws.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>KMF Winter Seminar &#8211; DIRCO Minister Ronald Lamola on immigration, meeting with Ghana president<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wTmCPfXwzqY?si=VN3ekTL-1UGdh88D\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28464,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-40386","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40386","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\/40386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40390,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40386\/revisions\/40390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}