{"id":161701,"date":"2020-05-13T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T11:38:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-13T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T11:38:55","slug":"how-south-africa-is-denying-refugees-their-rights-what-needs-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/how-south-africa-is-denying-refugees-their-rights-what-needs-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How South Africa is denying refugees their rights: what needs to change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cape Town in the news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=38E76CE91EE7427F8F586BEDF7257C57url=https%3a%2f%2fmenafn.com%2f1100153656%2fHow-South-Africa-is-denying-refugees-their-rights-what-needs-to-changec=359417203880759892mkt=en-us\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How South Africa is denying refugees their rights: what needs to change<\/a>:<\/strong> South Africa hosted about 273,488 refugees and asylum seekers, of whom 84% come from sub-Saharan Africa, in 2018 \u2013 the latest period for which figures are available. They come mostly from Zimbabwe, \u2026: <strong><small><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=38E76CE91EE7427F8F586BEDF7257C57url=https%3a%2f%2fmenafn.com%2f1100153656%2fHow-South-Africa-is-denying-refugees-their-rights-what-needs-to-changec=359417203880759892mkt=en-us\">\u201cCape Town\u201d \u2013 BingNews<\/a> <\/em><\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=38E76CE91EE7427F8F586BEDF7257C57url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.702.co.za%2farticles%2f383495%2feskom-set-to-implement-electricity-restrictions-in-high-density-areas-in-gautengc=14113640130739252237mkt=en-us\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eskom set to implement electricity restrictions in high density areas in Gauteng<\/a>:<\/strong> National spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha says this it is not load shedding, it is for areas that have connected illegally.: <strong><small><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=38E76CE91EE7427F8F586BEDF7257C57url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.702.co.za%2farticles%2f383495%2feskom-set-to-implement-electricity-restrictions-in-high-density-areas-in-gautengc=14113640130739252237mkt=en-us\">\u201cCape Town\u201d \u2013 BingNews<\/a> <\/em><\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=38E76CE91EE7427F8F586BEDF7257C57url=https%3a%2f%2fnews.yahoo.com%2fsport-day-born-may-14-060000525.htmlc=718041106583339771mkt=en-us\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sport-On this day: Born May 14, 1948: Bob Woolmer, English cricketer<\/a>:<\/strong> Bob Woolmer was nicknamed \u2018The Scientist\u2019 and became arguably the greatest cricket mind of his generation but he may be remembered more for the way he died than for his immense contribution to the \u2026: <strong><small><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=38E76CE91EE7427F8F586BEDF7257C57url=https%3a%2f%2fnews.yahoo.com%2fsport-day-born-may-14-060000525.htmlc=718041106583339771mkt=en-us\">\u201cCape Town\u201d \u2013 BingNews<\/a> <\/em><\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=38E76CE91EE7427F8F586BEDF7257C57url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mediaupdate.co.za%2fmedia%2f148569%2fmissingyoucapetown-reconnects-cape-town-locals-with-favourite-spotsc=16413509190013513974mkt=en-us\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018#MissingYouCapeTown\u2019 reconnects Cape Town locals with favourite spots<\/a>:<\/strong> Cape Town-born journalist, photographer and documentary filmmaker Yazeed Kamaldien has launched an online visual `love letter` to his home city during the coronavirus lockdown. The project, called \u2026: <strong><small><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRssaid=tid=38E76CE91EE7427F8F586BEDF7257C57url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mediaupdate.co.za%2fmedia%2f148569%2fmissingyoucapetown-reconnects-cape-town-locals-with-favourite-spotsc=16413509190013513974mkt=en-us\">\u201cCape Town\u201d \u2013 BingNews<\/a> <\/em><\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to submit your Cape Town News<\/a> \u2013 free.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Have you tried:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/MyZA.co.za\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travelling to South Africa<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Fun Western Cape Fact:<\/strong> Afrikaans is the most spoken language in the Western Cape \u2013 Even though it\u2019s one of the youngest languages in the world it is the most spoken language in the Western Cape. Xhosa and English are the second and third language.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Watch a Video:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Fiks Mahola Really One?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town in the news: How South Africa is denying refugees their rights: what needs to change: South Africa hosted about 273,488 refugees and asylum seekers, of whom 84% come from sub-Saharan Africa, in 2018 \u2013 the latest period for which figures are available. They come mostly from Zimbabwe, \u2026: \u201cCape Town\u201d \u2013 BingNews Eskom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3331],"tags":[25,1737,77,3333],"class_list":{"0":"post-161701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cape-town","7":"tag-cape-town-2","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-municipality","10":"tag-mycapetown-co-za","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}