{"id":90407,"date":"2026-06-08T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90407"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:41:38","slug":"extreme-fear-among-immigrants-as-backlash-sweeps-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/08\/extreme-fear-among-immigrants-as-backlash-sweeps-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme fear among immigrants as backlash sweeps South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA255uaS.img?w=768&h=614&m=6&x=288&y=590&s=89&d=89\" alt=\"Protesters in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, call for the deportation of undocumented immigrants in South Africa. Photograph: Ihsaan Haffejee\/Reuters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>African migrants in South Africa say they are living in fear after a series of marches calling for illegal immigrants to leave reignited long-held xenophobic sentiment in the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/extreme-fear-among-immigrants-as-backlash-sweeps-south-africa\/ar-AA255wwn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=1307bf266cc840e3e31520f7e7398dfe&cvpid=d1ef24ed3fd241c2bfdf7c4956d1a098&ei=36\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>African migrants in South Africa say they are living in fear after a series of marches calling for illegal immigrants to leave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-migration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/south-africa.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90408,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90407\/revisions\/90408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}