My Cradock

Cradock News Classifieds and Directory

You are here: Home / Archives for news

news

Your weather update: Frosty conditions continue, with another cold day expected on Thursday

Conditions on Thursday will not be too dissimilar to those experienced during the week, the South African Weather Service says, with cold and frost set to continue.   Warnings Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in the Richersveld Municipality in the Northern Cape. Special weather advisory Frost is expected in places over the northern and …

Conditions on Thursday will not be too dissimilar to those experienced during the week, the South African Weather Service says, with cold and frost set to continue.  

Warnings

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in the Richersveld Municipality in the Northern Cape.

Special weather advisory

Frost is expected in places over the northern and central interior of the Eastern Cape, over the Free State, the highveld of Mpumalanga, the western parts of KwaZulu-Natal, the southern parts of Northern Cape and parts of North West, as well as over the Central Karoo in the Western Cape.

The weather in your region

Gauteng will be fine and cool with morning frost in places.

The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.

It will partly cloudy in the extreme east in Mpumalanga, otherwise conditions will be fine and cold with morning frost over the southern highveld.

Limpopo will be partly cloudy in the extreme east, otherwise fine and cool.

It will be a fine and cool to cold day in the North West, with morning frost in places.

The Free State can expect frost in places where it will be cold, otherwise, it will be a fine and cool day.

The Northern Cape will be fine and cool to warm, with morning frost over the southern high ground where it will be cold.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly.

Conditions in the Western Cape will be fine and cool, with morning frost over the Central Karoo where it will be cold.

The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh easterly to north-easterly..

The expected UVB sunburn index is low.

The western half of the Eastern Cape will be fine and cool, but cold in places over the high ground with frost in the morning.

The wind along the coast will be light north-westerly but moderate to fresh in the Coega area, becoming light south-easterly in afternoon, but moderate easterly in the evening.

The eastern half of the Eastern Cape will be fine and cool, but cold in places over the high ground with frost in the morning.

The wind along the coast will be light to moderate north-westerly, becoming light south-easterly in the afternoon but light north-easterly in the evening.

KwaZulu-Natal will be partly cloudy in the north-east, otherwise fine and cool but cold, with morning frost in the extreme west.

The wind along the coast will be moderate westerly to north-westerly, becoming north-easterly in the afternoon.

The expected UVB sunburn index is high.

– Compiled by Kamva Somdyala

Click here to see the specific forecast for your city over the next few days

Category: Tag: , , , ,

UPDATE 1-Former South African president De Klerk withdraws from U.S. rights talk

(Updates with ABA statement on when it cancelled the panel in paragraph six) By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, June 21 (Reuters) – South Africa’s last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged racial …

(Updates with ABA statement on when it cancelled the panel in paragraph six)

By Wendell Roelf

CAPE TOWN, June 21 (Reuters) – South Africa’s last apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has withdrawn from a U.S. seminar about minority rights because he did not want to embarrass himself or his hosts in the current charged racial climate, his foundation said on Sunday.

De Klerk, who was the head of South Africa’s white minority government until 1994, was scheduled to speak on July 1 at an American Bar Association (ABA) virtual event on issues such as minority rights, racism and the rule of law.

But his participation unleashed a barrage of criticism from South African opposition parties and activists who called on ABA to cancel De Klerk’s attendance given his role in the apartheid-era security apparatus.

“The allegation that De Klerk was involved in gross violations of human rights is baseless,” the F.W. de Klerk foundation said in a statement.

“However, it appears unacceptable in the current super-heated racial climate that any leader from South Africa’s troubled past should be permitted to retain the slightest vestige of honour,” it said.

In a follow-up statement, ABA confirmed the panel was cancelled at midday on Saturday.

The death of Black man George Floyd under the knee of a U.S. police officer last month has triggered a wave of anti-racism protests around the world.

“At a time like this where the whole world is crying out for recognition and demanding that value be placed on our lives, on Black lives, we think that ABA erred in inviting someone like De Klerk,” said Lukhanyo Calata.

He is the son of Fort Calata, who was killed along with three other anti-apartheid activists by South African police in 1985 in an incident known as “The Cradock Four”.

De Klerk’s foundation defended his legacy of helping South Africa’s transition from white minority rule to non-racial constitutional democracy and for being the only world leader to dismantle an existing nuclear arsenal.

But, almost thirty years after apartheid’s demise, De Klerk’s role remains highly contested in South Africa, one of the world’s most unequal societies where class and race issues constantly bubble under the surface.

Earlier this year De Klerk, an octogenarian who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with South Africa’s first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela, also faced a backlash when he told the national broadcaster he did not believe apartheid was a crime against humanity, as declared by the United Nations. (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by David Clarke)

Category: Tag: , , ,

WATCH: Severe cold to hit Gauteng as snow falls in Free State, Karoo

To add insult to injury amid a coronavirus pandemic and rolling blackouts, South Africans have been warned that severely cold weather is on the cards for most provinces this week. Tokelo Chiloane, a forecaster at the South African Weather Service (SAWS), said a cold front that had already plagued the Cape provinces will move to …

To add insult to injury amid a coronavirus pandemic and rolling blackouts, South Africans have been warned that severely cold weather is on the cards for most provinces this week.

Tokelo Chiloane, a forecaster at the South African Weather Service (SAWS), said a cold front that had already plagued the Cape provinces will move to the central and eastern parts of the country on Tuesday.

This includes Gauteng, the Free State, Eastern Cape, North West, KwaZulu-Natal and the highveld of Mpumalanga. According to the SAWS, temperatures are expected to drop to the low teens.

Minimum temperatures were expected to plummet significantly, with widespread frost predicted for Wednesday morning across the central interior of the country, such as the northern parts of the Eastern Cape, eastern parts of the Northern Cape, extreme southern parts of North West and Gauteng, as well as the Free State.

“We saw some very cold conditions in the Free State [on Tuesday] morning with frost in some places.”

According to Chiloane, the cold front was moving through the Free State between Welkom and Bloemfontein to the interior of the country.

“It will be warming up in the west on Wednesday. However, Gauteng and Mpumalanga will be experiencing cold weather and only warm up from Thursday,” Chiloane said.

Cold winds will add to the chill factor, she said.

On Monday, South Africa was hit by a second cold front following a drop in temperatures since Thursday that saw heavy rains, gale-force winds and snow batter the Cape provinces, as well as parts of Lesotho.

The southern provinces were not out of the woods yet.

The SAWS expected a storm surge along the coast between Mossel Bay and Cape St Francis on Tuesday morning.

In addition, gale-force winds (65km/h to 75km/h) are expected along the coast between Mossel Bay and Coffee Bay.

Snowfall is also expected over the high ground of the Western Cape, southern parts of the Northern Cape, southern Free State and the Eastern Cape high ground on Tuesday.

For more news your way, download The Citizen’s app for iOS and Android.

Category: Tag: , , , ,

South Africa: Eastern Cape Police Stations Now Fully Operational

The Eastern Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga wishes to inform the members of the community in Port Alfred, Nemato, Cathcart, Glen Grey, Lady Frere, Sterkstroom, Molteno, Queenstown and Cradock that these police stations are now open and fully operational. Community members can now access services at the stations. The stations were temporarily closed …

The Eastern Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga wishes to inform the members of the community in Port Alfred, Nemato, Cathcart, Glen Grey, Lady Frere, Sterkstroom, Molteno, Queenstown and Cradock that these police stations are now open and fully operational. Community members can now access services at the stations.

The stations were temporarily closed following incidents relating to members testing positive of the COVID-19.

All health protocols have since been followed and affected members were quarantined and isolated accordingly. All these processes were done through the advice and guidance of the Department of Health officials.

Lt Gen Ntshinga would like to thank the communities for their patience and all the stakeholders who opened their doors for SAPS to ensure that policing service was not hampered. She also thanked the SAPS members and employees for their commitment during these challenging time and encouraged them to take precautions to be safe at all times. She concluded by thanking the media for their relentless efforts in informing the community members about prevailing circumstances.

Category: Tag: , , ,

Covid-19 grants are making a difference in this little Namaqualand town

The Covid-19 grant provides further evidence of the contribution that an underlying safety net for all South Africans can make towards improving household access to basic resources, say the writers. (Photos: EPA-EFE / Kim Ludbrook | EPA-EFE / Nic Bothma / municipalities.co.za) The little town of Loeriesfontein in Namaqualand, part of the western Karoo, is …