{"id":50427,"date":"2026-11-09T16:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50427"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:28:46","slug":"nine-foreigners-arrested-at-sas-or-tambo-headed-for-russia-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nine-foreigners-arrested-at-sas-or-tambo-headed-for-russia-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine foreigners arrested at SA\u2019s OR Tambo \u2018headed for Russia-Ukraine war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">South African (SA) Law Enforcement, the Hawks say the nine foreign nationals were arrested at OR Tambo International Airport and a hotel in Bruma, east of Johannesburg, over an alleged attempt to leave South Africa to participate in the Russia-Ukraine war, and they are expected to appear in the Kempton Park Magistrates\u2019 Court.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four and a half years ago and has been using foreign nationals, including from Africa, in its army.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Hawks Spokesperson Katlego Mogale says the suspects were preparing to board flights out of the country when they were apprehended.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe suspects were allegedly preparing to board flights out of the country when they were apprehended.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The suspects are expected to face charges relating to the contravention of the Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act 15 of 1998.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23505,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-50427","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four and a half years ago.","published_date":"","news_description":"Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four and a half years ago.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50427","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\/50427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50429,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50427\/revisions\/50429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}