{"id":47738,"date":"2026-10-10T16:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47738"},"modified":"2026-10-10T16:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:15:07","slug":"over-19-arrested-in-sa-province-anti-undocumented-immigration-protests","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/over-19-arrested-in-sa-province-anti-undocumented-immigration-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 19 arrested in SA province anti-undocumented immigration protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>More than 19 people have been arrested for public violence and malicious damage to property following violent anti-undocumented immigration protests which erupted in Durban, South Africa (SA) over the past two days.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Police and security companies are currently patrolling the streets in the Central Business District after violence and looting on Friday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A march against undocumented migrants descended into violence after some residents in the Point area threw stones at the marchers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Provincial police Spokesperson Robert Netshiunda says they have made several arrests, but it is still early days and they are collecting stats as to how many they\u2019ve arrested.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cBecause we\u2019ve arrested in different parts of the province, different parts of Durban as well. So at least more than 19 of them, mostly are students, no surprise because saw the numbers on the ground they were young people, most of them. They are arrested for public violence and malicious property damage. We are going to see if there are additional charges for those.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47660,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47738","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"A march against undocumented migrants descended into violence.","published_date":"","news_description":"A march against undocumented migrants descended into violence.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47738","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\/47738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47739,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47738\/revisions\/47739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}