{"id":48364,"date":"2026-10-18T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48364"},"modified":"2026-10-18T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:14:27","slug":"sa-weather-service-warns-heatwave-will-persist-until-monday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-weather-service-warns-heatwave-will-persist-until-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Weather Service warns heatwave will persist until Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a weather advisory warning that severe heatwave conditions across several northern and eastern provinces are expected to persist until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The prolonged spell of high temperatures continues to affect Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and KwaZulu-Natal, with weather forecasters urging residents to remain hydrated and take necessary precautions against extreme heat exposure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the heatwave, the weather service has issued a yellow level two warning for severe thunderstorms across parts of KwaZulu-Natal, with isolated to scattered thundershowers forecast across the central and eastern regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica\/SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23424,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-48364","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Severe heatwave advisory issued for four South African provinces","published_date":"2026-10-18 15:56:42","news_description":"Severe heatwave advisory issued for four South African provinces","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48364","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\/48364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48366,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48364\/revisions\/48366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}