WEATHER: A hot weekend ahead

Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in the south Western Bushveld as well as the northern parts of the North West and Northern Cape Provinces.

Gauteng: Partly cloudy and hot, but warm in the south.

Pretoria: 17 / 35

Johannesburg: 15 / 32

Mpumalanga: Cloudy in the east with morning fog patches along the escarpment as well as in places on the Highveld, otherwise partly cloudy and cool to warm with isolated evening showers and thundershowers, except in the Lowveld.

Mbombela: 16 / 25

Emalahleni: 14 / 28

Limpopo: Cloudy along the escarpment with morning fog patches, otherwise partly cloudy and warm but hot to very hot in places in the Western Bushveld and southern interior.

Polokwane: 16 / 27

North West: Fine becoming partly cloudy and hot but very hot.

Rustenburg: 20 / 37

Free State: Fine becoming partly cloudy except in the south and hot but warm in the north-east.

Bloemfontein: 14 / 35

Northern Cape: Fine and very hot but hot in the south. Warm along the coast where there will be fog patches at first. The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh southerly to south-easterly.

Kimberley: 16 / 35

Western Cape: Morningfog patches along the south coast, otherwise fine and hot but very hot in the interior of the West Coast District. The wind along the coast will be moderate easterly along the south coast freshening in the east in the late afternoon, otherwise fresh to strong southerly to south-easterly.

Cape Town: 17 / 29

Eastern Cape: Fine and warm, but partly cloudy east of Cape St Francis at first. The wind along the coast will be light easterly becoming moderate south-easterly.

Port Elizabeth: 13 / 25

KwaZulu-Natal: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise cloudy and cool with isolated showers. The wind along the coast will be moderate southerly to south-easterly, becoming north-easterly by afternoon.

Durban: 19 / 26