{"id":60136,"date":"2020-01-29T11:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T03:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60136"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T03:24:55","slug":"south-africa-undocumented-foreigners-rounded-up-after-murder-of-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60136","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Undocumented foreigners rounded up after murder of police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Undocumented-foreigners-rounded-up-after-South-Africans-protests-850534?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/225\/22504309.295.jpg\" alt=\"Angry protests against foreigners followed the killing of the police officer\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Angry protests against foreigners followed the killing of a police officer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Jan 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; South African police have rounded up 100 undocumented foreign nationals in a township north of Johannesburg following days of protests about the murder of a police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Oupa Matjie was murdered in Diepsloot during a confrontation with a suspected robber. Residents accused a Zimbabwean man of killing him &#8211; his photograph was widely circulated on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disgruntled residents took to the streets and targeted informal businesses owned by foreign nationals, who were often blamed for every social ill in poor communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many South Africans who live in the area have condemned the targeting of foreigners, others have warned African migrants to behave or leave the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unclear what will happen to the migrants who have been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a number of previous occasions, when police have detained groups of foreigners, they have been released quietly back into the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the situation remains tense in Diepsloot after officers raided homes on Tuesday morning in search of undocumented foreigners. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry protests against foreigners followed the killing of a police officer JOHANNESBURG, Jan 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; South African police have rounded up 100 undocumented foreign nationals in a township north of Johannesburg following days of protests about the murder of a police officer. Captain Oupa Matjie was murdered in Diepsloot during a confrontation with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}