{"id":49696,"date":"2026-11-02T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49696"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:20:17","slug":"former-sa-president-zuma-responds-to-reports-of-possible-arrest","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/former-sa-president-zuma-responds-to-reports-of-possible-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SA President Zuma responds to reports of possible arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Mkhonto\u00a0weSizwe\u00a0Party\u00a0leader and\u00a0former President Jacob\u00a0Zuma\u00a0says he has been made\u00a0aware\u00a0of\u00a0reports\u00a0about\u00a0plans to have him arrested.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Zuma\u00a0made the claims while addressing thousands attending the party&#8217;s final election rally at the Princess\u00a0Magogo\u00a0Stadium in\u00a0KwaMashu, north of Durban, in the\u00a0KwaZulu-Natal Province.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He did not indicate who was planning the arrest, and why.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This was\u00a0Zuma&#8217;s\u00a0first public appearance as people prepare to vote in the local government elections this week.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13571,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-49696","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"\u00a0Zuma\u00a0aware\u00a0of\u00a0reports\u00a0about\u00a0plans to have him arrested","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49696","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\/49696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49698,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49696\/revisions\/49698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}