We’ve received the latest news tales and headlines in South Africa on Friday, 12 August.
Wait, what?! It was not too long ago revealed that Police Minister Bheki Cele spends R600 million a yr on meals and lodging when he goes on official journeys.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi introduced some large adjustments to the South African passport functions and collections.
South Africans are in for a cold weekend with chilly fronts, winds, rain, and snow anticipated in elements of the nation. These areas will see SNOW this WEEKEND.
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) issued a really chilly, moist and windy advisory for the Western and Northern Cape on Thursday, 11 August, forward of the weekend. The frigid situations are anticipated to be the results of a sequence of chilly fronts.
The Sturgeon moon – August’s full moon – will take the night time sky TONIGHT, providing South Africans the final supermoon of the yr.
A vicious act of mob justice has been reported in Klerksdorp, North West this week – after police tried to arrest a suspected youngster rapist. SAPS officers have been compelled to flee from their automobile, when angry locals set it on fire.
TODAY’S LATEST NEWS IN SOUTH AFRICA, Friday 12 August
Bheki Cele spends R600 million a yr on meals and lodging
Wait, what?! It was not too long ago revealed that Police Minister Bheki Cele spends R600 million a yr on meals and lodging when he goes on official journeys.
This would come with visiting homicide scenes of victims he chooses at his prerogative. Cele made it clear earlier this yr that it’s his personal prerogative which funerals and crime scenes he attends.
His spokesperson Lirandzu Themba instructed The South African Cele and SAPS management additionally attend most if not all official SAPS funerals.
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According to DA Shadow Minister of Police, Andrew Whitfield, Cele revealed that his division had spent over R1.5 billion on lodging and R42.7 million on catering since March 2019.
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Huge CHANGES for passports in SA – right here’s what to anticipate…
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi introduced some large adjustments to the South African passport functions and collections.
According to Motsoaledi, the ‘flexibility’ given to those functions and collections is being eliminated. This will probably be carried out to guard the passport’s integrity.
The news follows points relating to fraud and corruption that concerned passports. The high-profile instances have, sadly, broken South Africa’s status and introduced the nation’s passport into query.
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These areas will get SNOW this WEEKEND – extra information right here
South Africans are in for a cold weekend with chilly fronts, winds, rain, and snow anticipated in elements of the nation. These areas will see SNOW this WEEKEND.
The third intense chilly entrance will blast throughout South Africa over the weekend with icy polar air behind it, inflicting temperatures to plummet throughout the nation and bringing snow to the excessive floor of the Cape provinces and Lesotho
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‘Very cold, wet and windy’ climate warning for the Cape
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) issued a really chilly, moist and windy advisory for the Western and Northern Cape on Thursday, 11 August, forward of the weekend. The frigid situations are anticipated to be the results of a sequence of chilly fronts.
READ: Three COLD fronts anticipated in elements of SA – extra information right here
According to the advisory, which is efficient from 10:00 on Friday, 12 August till Sunday, 14 August at midnight, the utmost temperature will probably be under 12C from Friday night.
The sequence of chilly fronts are anticipated to have an effect on the western elements of South Africa over the weekend with the moist, windy and chilly situations to be felt from Friday.
How to see the final SUPERMOON of the yr moon TONIGHT
The Sturgeon moon – August’s full moon – will take the night time sky TONIGHT, providing South Africans the final supermoon of the yr.
According to NASA the supermoon will seem seven levels above the east-southeastern horizon. It will peak on Thursday night time at about 9:36 p.m. EDT (03:30 on Friday morning in South Africa); it can additionally seem practically full on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.
The Sturgeon moon might outshine one other main celestial occasion on Thursday: the Perseids meteor bathe. The hottest annual meteor bathe, which is energetic from July to September, will peak between Friday and Saturday.
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Watch: SAPS van containing youngster rape suspect TORCHED in Klerksdorp
A vicious act of mob justice has been reported in Klerksdorp, North West, this week – after police tried to arrest a suspected youngster rapist. SAPS officers have been compelled to flee from their automobile when angry locals set it on fire.
After a 10-year-old lady went lacking within the Jouberton space, a search social gathering was shaped to search out her. The minor was found hidden in a close-by shack. The suspect was then crushed closely by these looking for their very own type of retribution and was hurried away from the scene by cops.
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