Tuesday 3 March 2015 - 3:59pm
Firefighters work on Chapmans Peak as a fire continues to burn through indigenous Fynbos vegetation on the World Heritage site Table Mountain National Park, three days after it started in Muizenberg, near Cape Town in South Africa 03 March 2015.
CAPE TOWN - Cape Town Weather Services, on Tuesday reported that it was the hottest day the Mother City has seen in a century.
eNCA meteorologist Luis Fernandez said that the Cape Point reached 39.3 degrees and the last time the temperature was this high was in 1917. Cape Town international Airport broke its all-time record since 1932, reaching 42.3 degrees while Stellenbosch also broke its all-time record getting to 42.3 degrees.”