{"id":34205,"date":"2026-05-11T12:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34205"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:51:31","slug":"sa-government-declares-severe-storms-national-disaster","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-government-declares-severe-storms-national-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"SA government declares severe storms\u00a0national disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The South African (SA) government has declared the severe storms affecting several provinces a national disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Provinces including the North West, Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga have been hit by floods, thunderstorms, damaging winds and snowfall in some areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The severe weather has disrupted essential services, including schooling, prompting calls for urgent intervention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The country&#8217;s Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs says the funds will be released to support recovery and relief efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20660,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34205","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA declares the severe storms national disaster","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34205","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34206,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34205\/revisions\/34206"}],"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=34205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}