{"id":41942,"date":"2026-08-09T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41942"},"modified":"2026-08-09T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:45:30","slug":"sa-home-affairs-scales-down-musina-repatriation-centres-operations","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-home-affairs-scales-down-musina-repatriation-centres-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Home Affairs scales down \u00a0Musina repatriation centre\u2019s operations\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Home Affairs \u00a0Department in South Africa (SA) has started to scale down operations at the Musina temporary repatriation centre in Limpopo province.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Department\u2019s Chief Director Albert Matsaung says they have processed just under 2 000 undocumented migrants since the beginning of this month.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Matsaung says they have also reduced their work force at the repatriation centre.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He says, \u201cSince we started with this project, we have processed such a sizeable number of people and we have seen numbers gradually decreasing especially now since we started the month of August.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Matsaung adds, \u201cOur numbers started decreasing, I think the guidance that we got from IMC (Inter-Ministerial Committee) was that the structure has to be downscaled so that they can then accommodate plus minus 1 500 people at a go.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15264,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-41942","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Matsaung says they have also reduced their work force at the repatriation centre.","published_date":"","news_description":"Matsaung says they have also reduced their work force at the repatriation centre.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41942","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\/41942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41943,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41942\/revisions\/41943"}],"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=41942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}