{"id":42489,"date":"2026-08-14T07:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42489"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:52:53","slug":"migration-challenges-shouldnt-divide-sadc-region-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/migration-challenges-shouldnt-divide-sadc-region-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration challenges shouldn\u2019t divide SADC region: Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Amon Murwira says migration challenges should not divide the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.<\/p>\n<p>He is in South Africa to attend the SADC Summit currently underway in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal province<\/p>\n<p>Migration is expected to be one of the top issues on the agenda of discussions of the regional bloc\u2019s heads of state and government on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to the SABC News, Murwira says, \u201cIt\u2019s about narratives. I will start by saying Chief Albert Luthuli was born in Zimbabwe; is that a problem? I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a problem. Victoria Chitepo is Xhosa, but she is on the Zimbabwe side; is that a problem? Ruth Chinamano was born in the Eastern Cape province.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42490,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-42489","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"He is in South Africa to attend the SADC Summit currently underway in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal province","published_date":"","news_description":"He is in South Africa to attend the SADC Summit currently underway in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal province","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42489","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\/42489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42491,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42489\/revisions\/42491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}