{"id":49341,"date":"2026-10-28T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49341"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:08:50","slug":"sa-high-court-postpones-asylum-seeker-detention-hearing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-high-court-postpones-asylum-seeker-detention-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"SA High Court postpones asylum seeker detention hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court in Johannesburg, South Africa (SA), has postponed a Full Court hearing regarding the detention of prospective asylum seekers, pushing the proceedings to November 16\u201318, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The case, which was scheduled to begin on Thursday, October 29, brings together 33 urgent applications concerning foreign nationals currently held in detention who have declared their intention to apply for asylum in SA. The applicants are seeking an urgent ruling on whether keeping undocumented migrants in custody after they ask for refugee status is lawful under SA law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The postponement follows a legal notice filed by one of the applicants on October 21, which introduced new constitutional challenges regarding the state&#8217;s detention policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To ensure a thorough hearing, the court has set a deadline of November 6, 2026, for human rights organisations, legal bodies, and interested parties wishing to join the case as friends of the court to submit their written arguments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16035,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-49341","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA High Court postpones ruling on legality of migrant detentions","published_date":"2026-10-28 21:04:30","news_description":"SA High Court postpones ruling on legality of migrant detentions","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49341","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\/49341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49343,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49341\/revisions\/49343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}