{"id":91406,"date":"2026-06-30T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91406"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:02:15","slug":"south-african-cities-shuttered-as-anti-migrant-protests-spark-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/south-african-cities-shuttered-as-anti-migrant-protests-spark-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"South African cities shuttered as anti-migrant protests spark fear"},"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\/AA26Qqzr.img?w=768&h=503&m=6\" alt=\"Foreign nationals sleep on the street, in front of a Home Affairs office in Durban, South Africa, June 30, 2026. REUTERS\/Rogan Ward\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Workers stayed home, shops were shut and buses sat idle across South Africa on Tuesday, as demonstrators gathered across the country for anti-immigrant marches that many fear will descend into violence.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/other\/south-african-cities-shuttered-as-anti-migrant-protests-spark-fear\/ar-AA26RQfm?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">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>Workers stayed home, shops were shut and buses sat idle across South Africa on Tuesday, as demonstrators gathered across the country for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/South-Africa-protest.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91406","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=91406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91408,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91406\/revisions\/91408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}