{"id":30917,"date":"2026-04-06T14:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30917"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:19:08","slug":"heavy-rainfall-strongs-winds-warning-issued-for-sa-province","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/heavy-rainfall-strongs-winds-warning-issued-for-sa-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rainfall, strongs winds warning issued for SA province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a warning for heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and strong winds over some parts of KwaZulu-Natal province, this Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This after heavy rains accompanied thunderstorms on Sunday night, causing localised flooding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis warning is for severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy downpours, lightning, hail and damaging winds which will result in localised flooding and damage to infrastructure. The district municipalities affected by these thunderstorms that are forecasted are the uThukela, Gingindlovu, eThewini, Ilembe and parts of King Cetswayo District,\u201d says Forecaster, Masego Nhlapo.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the KwaZulu-Natal Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Department said they are working closely with Disaster Management in the province to clear debris and restore services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20660,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-30917","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"This after heavy rains accompanied thunderstorms on Sunday night, causing localised flooding.","published_date":"","news_description":"This after heavy rains accompanied thunderstorms on Sunday night, causing localised flooding.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30920,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30917\/revisions\/30920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}