Overview
- SA Weather Service advisories forecast heavy downpours, small hail, damaging winds and excessive lightning over Gauteng on Friday after late‑Thursday deluges.
- Johannesburg Emergency Services activated disaster management teams across all seven regions and are monitoring the Klip Valley and Jukskei streams as water levels run high.
- The Gauteng Joint Operations Committee reported flooding in Alberton, Bedfordview’s Gillooly’s interchange, Crown Mines, Primrose, Krugersdorp, Buccleuch and Sunninghill, with videos showing submerged vehicles and water inside Germiston’s Golden Walk mall.
- Authorities urged residents to avoid low‑lying crossings and told motorists not to drive through flooded roads, to slow down and increase following distances, noting several crashes on Thursday.
- SAWS also flagged severe storms for the North West, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and Free State, and warned of a heat wave in parts of the Western Cape along with a yellow‑level 1 wind alert at sea.