{"id":238816,"date":"2026-07-16T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwean-migrants-in-louis-trichardt-fear-losing-access-to-health-services\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:01:00","slug":"zimbabwean-migrants-in-louis-trichardt-fear-losing-access-to-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwean-migrants-in-louis-trichardt-fear-losing-access-to-health-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean Migrants in Louis Trichardt Fear Losing Access to Health Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Zimbabwean immigrants living in Louis Trichardt say they are being turned away from clinics or told their latest chronic medication collection will be their last, raising fears that anti-immigrant pressure is starting to affect access to healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The concern follows the 30 June deadline set by anti-immigrant groups for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Louis Trichardt, a Limpopo town on the main route to the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe, is home to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.makhado.gov.za\/sstaff\/pages\/sites\/makhado\/documents\/idp\/2025-2026%20%20FINAL%20IDP%20REVIEW%20replace070425.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">large population<\/a> of Zimbabwean&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607160047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean immigrants living in Louis Trichardt say they are being turned away from clinics or told their latest chronic medication collection will be their last, raising fears that anti-immigrant pressure is starting to affect access to healthcare. The concern follows the 30 June deadline set by anti-immigrant groups for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[6450,258,256,12166,5731,10575,20048,6928,257,7155,254,54850,421,325],"class_list":["post-238816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fear","tag-health","tag-losing","tag-louis","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-services","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trichardt","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238816","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=238816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}