{"id":49188,"date":"2026-10-27T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49188"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:03:04","slug":"sa-deploys-troops-to-coastal-province-to-help-control-anti-migrant-protests","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-deploys-troops-to-coastal-province-to-help-control-anti-migrant-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"SA deploys troops to coastal province to help control anti-migrant protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered the deployment of 510 soldiers \u200bto the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal to \u200csupport police efforts to control anti-migrant protests, Ramaphosa&#8217;s office said this Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The deployment runs from October 9 \u200buntil November 30 and is expected \u200bto cost R34.1 million ($2.05 million).<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">It comes \u2060before November 4 local government elections and \u200bafter calls by anti-migrant groups for nationwide protests.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">SA has seen months of anti-migrant marches this year that have drawn international criticism. Some marches have descended \u200binto violence, and thousands of African foreign \u200bnationals have fled the country<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Ramaphosa&#8217;s office said in a statement \u200cthat \u2060the deployment followed recent violence linked to misinformation about a Constitutional Court ruling on asylum seekers<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">This month anti-migrant protests in KwaZulu-Natal&#8217; province&#8217;s biggest city \u200bDurban and \u200bJohannesburg&#8217;s Soweto \u2060township turned violent, with vehicles torched and shops looted<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">A foreign national \u200bwas also allegedly beaten to death by \u200ba \u2060crowd in Durban last week.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The unrest followed disinformation about a July Constitutional Court ruling that asylum seekers \u2060cannot \u200bbe denied access to SA&#8217;s asylum system solely for procedural reasons<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21705,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-49188","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The deployment runs from October 9 \u200buntil November 30.","published_date":"","news_description":"The deployment runs from October 9 \u200buntil November 30.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49188","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\/49188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49190,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49188\/revisions\/49190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}