{"id":235395,"date":"2026-06-05T05:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-claims-five-of-its-nationals-killed-killed-in-south-africa-xenophobic-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:16:37","slug":"mozambique-claims-five-of-its-nationals-killed-killed-in-south-africa-xenophobic-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-claims-five-of-its-nationals-killed-killed-in-south-africa-xenophobic-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Claims Five of Its Nationals Killed Killed in South Africa &#8216;Xenophobic Attacks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em> Mozambique has claimed that five of its nationals were killed in xenophobic attacks in South Africa at the weekend, as efforts got under way on Tuesday to repatriate hundreds of others. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The deaths come after approximately 800 Mozambicans were targeted in violence that erupted in the southern city of Mossel Bay on Friday (29 May 2026), according to a statement released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Mossel Bay is situated about 380 kilometres east of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/cape-town\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Cape Town<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The statement specified that &#8220;seven Mozambicans died,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozambique has claimed that five of its nationals were killed in xenophobic attacks in South Africa at the weekend, as efforts got under way on Tuesday to repatriate hundreds of others. The deaths come after approximately 800 Mozambicans were targeted in violence that erupted in the southern city of Mossel Bay on Friday (29 May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681616:6d15852915d39250481dd486ddb79534:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,306,8117,4327,4704,682,16316,257,5069,254,16856],"class_list":["post-235395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-claims","tag-killed","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-nationals","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-xenophobic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681616:6d15852915d39250481dd486ddb79534:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}