{"id":525,"date":"2010-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/south-africa-tussle-over-planned-resumption-of-deportations\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:34:11","slug":"south-africa-tussle-over-planned-resumption-of-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/south-africa-tussle-over-planned-resumption-of-deportations\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Tussle over planned resumption of deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the deadline to deport undocumented Zimbabwean migrants on or after 1 January 2011 looms, human rights activists warn South Africa could face a potential human rights disaster, though a senior South African official says the government is not aiming for a &#8220;massive deportation operation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rights NGOs working with Zimbabwean migrants said they were bracing for hundreds of thousands to be deported.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Kadziwe of the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), a member of a panel set up by the South African government to liaise with it on matters affecting Zimbabwean migrants, said: &#8220;We are not quite sure how to prepare for it [the resumption of deportations suspended since April 2009] &#8211; we are hoping the authorities will extend the deadline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Modiri Matthews, chief director of immigration services at the department of home affairs, rejected suggestions of a massive blitz against Zimbabwean migrants at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Link to IRIN website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/report.aspx?ReportID=91056\">Tussle over planned resumption of deportations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the deadline to deport undocumented Zimbabwean migrants on or after 1 January 2011 looms, human rights activists warn South Africa could face a potential human rights disaster, though a senior South African official says the government is not aiming for a &#8220;massive deportation operation&#8221;. Rights NGOs working with Zimbabwean migrants said they were bracing [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-488","item-theme-deportations","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18038,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/18038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}