{"id":45510,"date":"2026-09-15T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45510"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:01:30","slug":"asylum-seekers-in-sa-moved-to-gauteng-province-lindela-camp","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/asylum-seekers-in-sa-moved-to-gauteng-province-lindela-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum seekers in SA moved to Gauteng Province Lindela camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_copilot-message-_r_9q_\">\n<div id=\"x_response-id_r_9o_\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Department of Home Affairs says a group of 278 asylum seekers and people with refugee status are being moved from Durban&#8217;s KwaZulu-Natal to the Lindela repatriation camp in Krugersdorp West of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Home Affairs Spokesperson Ndileka Cola says this comes after a series of discussions with representatives of the group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They all have been living on the street outside a Home Affairs office for almost four months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The group has been demanding to be moved to a refugee camp for safety reasons following alleged intimidation and attacks on them amid protests against undocumented foreign nationals in May and June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42706,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-45510","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Asylum seekers and people with refugee status are being moved Johannesburg","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45510","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\/45510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45512,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45510\/revisions\/45512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}