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Johannesburg enjoys a dry, sunny climate, with the exception of occasional late afternoon downpours in the summer months of October to April. [8] Temperatures in the city are usually fairly mild due to the city's high altitude, with the average maximum daytime temperature in January of 26 °C (78.8 °F), dropping to an average maximum of around ...
Besides the high commission in Pretoria, the UK maintains a consulate-general in Cape Town. [1] The high commissioner to South Africa is also accredited to the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), but a resident high commissioner to Eswatini has been appointed and is expected in post in summer 2019. [2]
In 2015, Pretoria saw its worst drought since 1982; the month of November 2015 saw new records broken for high temperatures, with 43 °C (109 °F) recorded on 11 November after three weeks of temperatures between 35 °C (95 °F) and 43 °C (109 °F). Pretoria reached a new record high of 42.7 °C (108.9 °F) on 7 January 2016. [15]
The container terminal at City Deep is known to be the largest "dry port" in the world, [99] with some 50% of cargo that arrives through the ports of Durban and Cape Town arriving in Johannesburg. The City Deep area has been declared an IDZ (industrial development zone) by the Gauteng government. [citation needed] [100]
The United States Food and Drugs Administration is warning pet owners about a common medication given to pets to treat arthritis. The F.D.A. now says that the drug Librela may be associated with ...
Rank Name Province Pop. Johannesburg Cape Town: 1: Johannesburg: Gauteng: 9,167,045 Durban Pretoria: 2: Cape Town: Western Cape: 4,004,793 3: Durban: KwaZulu-Natal ...
The weather may be chilly, with an average of 15 days of snow, according to OriginalBerlinTours.com. However, winter in the city brings activities like ice skating and tobogganing, and an excuse ...
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.