{"id":47643,"date":"2026-10-09T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47643"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:19:08","slug":"sa-deputy-government-spokesperson-blames-misinformation-disinformation-for-chaos-in-parts-of-sa-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-deputy-government-spokesperson-blames-misinformation-disinformation-for-chaos-in-parts-of-sa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Deputy Government Spokesperson \u00a0blames misinformation, disinformation for chaos in parts of SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\">\n<div>Deputy Government Spokesperson in South Africa (SA), William Baloyi says misinformation and disinformation is causing the chaos that is unfolding in some parts of the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is in reaction to the Apex court declaring certain provisions of the Refugees Act unconstitutional in July.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This led to the Home Affairs Department effectively reopening South Africa&#8217;s asylum system to new applicants in compliance with the court ruling.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Protests in Durban in the KwaZulu Natal province and in Johannesburg&#8217;s Soweto township on Thursday turned violent, with cars torched and gunshots fired.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13027,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47643","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"This is in reaction to the Apex court declaring certain provisions of the Refugees Act unconstitutional in July.\u00a0","published_date":"","news_description":"This is in reaction to the Apex court declaring certain provisions of the Refugees Act unconstitutional in July.\u00a0","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47643","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\/47643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47644,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47643\/revisions\/47644"}],"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=47643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}