{"id":47480,"date":"2026-10-07T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47480"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:01:03","slug":"immigration-tensions-flare-as-activists-disrupts-sas-durban-home-affairs-centre","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/immigration-tensions-flare-as-activists-disrupts-sas-durban-home-affairs-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration tensions flare as activists disrupts SA&#8217;s Durban Home Affairs centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Tensions over immigration are flaring again in South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Province, after activists from March and March disrupted operations at the Department of Home Affairs Refugee Reception Centre, forcing services to a halt.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nThe group targeted the facility on Tuesday, demanding tougher enforcement of immigration laws.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">They also challenging the processing of asylum applications, before police and metro police intervened.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nActivist Nkosikhona &#8220;Phakel&#8217;umthakathi&#8221; Ndabandaba has questioned why some foreign nationals are being allowed to seek asylum or permits while others face repatriation and is calling on government to apply immigration laws consistently.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13027,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47480","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Tensions over immigration are flaring again in SA","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47480","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\/47480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47481,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47480\/revisions\/47481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}