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The South African Weather Service (SAWS) extended weather forecast for Wednesday and Thursday (09-10 September 2026), points to hot and increasingly windy conditions developing over the Central Karoo, with the Sutherland and Laingsburg areas of the Western Cape forecast to reach highs of around 25 degrees Celsius under fresh to strong winds of up to…

One of the principal arteries of world trade has been chronically blocked for almost six months. Maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has been reduced to a bare minimum since the first US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran at the end of February. Cargo ships have at times been fired on by Iranian forces; at others,…