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The snowy conditions that led to the closure of several roads including the busy N3 highway at the weekend raised questions about the transport infrastructure’s ability to deal with extreme weather in South Africa.



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The toll road linking Johannesburg to Durban was thrown into chaos when road users were trapped in heavy snow. Hundreds of motorists were stranded and at least one person died of hypothermia as icy conditions, wet weather and poor visibility affected parts of the country including KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State and Eastern Cape.

Many roads were impassable, leading to vehicles being stuck on the road for nearly two days, resulting in people being cold and hungry while they awaited help in freezing conditions. Midlands emergency services reported a woman died of the cold in Merrivale, near Howick, after travelling in a taxi which had become stuck.


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It raised the question why icy weather has such a dramatic effect on traffic in South Africa compared with countries in the northern hemisphere that are much more heavily affected by snow but do not close their roads, except in exceptional circumstances.

The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) said South Africa's roads are designed and built for the local climate. Snowfall more than 1m deep, as occurred at the weekend, is not normal and does not happen every year.

“Roads in the northern hemisphere are designed and built for sub-zero winter temperatures and regular and heavy snowfall. South African vehicles are not equipped to travel on snow-covered roads. Vehicles in the northern hemisphere may have special tyres, or chains in the case of the heavy vehicles,” said Vusi Mona, Sanral GM for communications and marketing.

Winter tyres are designed to cope with colder temperatures. They are made of a different type of rubber compared with regular tyres, with deeper tread grooves that help vehicles grip the road better in the cold and ice. In many European countries it is a legal requirement for motorists to have winter tyres on their vehicle for specific periods of the year, while drivers also carry snow chains to help their vehicles grip.

In countries where it snows regularly during winter, road-clearing measures are introduced including deploying snow ploughs and sprinkling rock salt on icy roadways to melt the ice. Salt lowers the freezing point of water, which prevents ice from forming.

Unlike their northern hemisphere counterparts, South African drivers are also not accustomed to slippery, ice-covered roads and do not have the skills to handle the conditions.

The N3 highway was reopened on Sunday evening and traffic is flowing after the extensive backlog between KwaZulu-Natal and Free State provinces was cleared and trapped motorists were rescued.


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Mona said discussions are under way to ensure more resilient infrastructure, given the climate change challenges and how they affect road safety.

Solid argument 👏🏻

Wetin concern us with una snow road matter?
Abeg shift

Useless thread

We don't give a shit about your useless, stupid and God forsaken country.
Leave this forum and find elsewhere to post this shit

Snow


The only thing south Africa can brag about that Nigeria 🇳🇬 dosent have.


Don't worry we are talking to one of the gods for a business deals

I'll probably die in this weather

What has that got to do with us?

MrLibrarian:
We don't give a shit about your useless, stupid and God forsaken country.
Leave this forum and find elsewhere to post this shit

SA snow giving you guys a real headache 🤕🤕🤕 didn't know you were so jealous 😂😂😂

Pity Chidimma isn't here to enjoy the snow with us 😢

MrLibrarian:
We don't give a shit about your useless, stupid and God forsaken country.
Leave this forum and find elsewhere to post this shit

At that time your scammer drug dealer brother is selling his assets to get a visa to South Africa to come run around like a headless chicken.

KLEINBASS:
At that time your scammer drug dealer brother is selling his assets to get a visa to South Africa to come run around like a headless chicken.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dope cartoon! Envy is murderizing these ones.

CJStarz:
Wetin concern us with una snow road matter?
Abeg shift

I forgot as prolific stowaways you prefer to travel inside plane engines instead 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩

Na dem sabi

WannaHowzit:
I forgot as prolific stowaways you prefer to travel inside plane engines instead 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩

Since you're not a Nigerian,U are a Stowaway here on the ship of Nairaland😂😂😂

CJStarz:
Since you're not a Nigerian,U are a Stowaway here on the ship of Nairaland😂😂😂

Chai, so you guys would rather drink your own urine to reach onyiboland than stay in your homeland and develop it? 🇳🇬 I think this article omitted what they ate because its too graphic💩💩💩

WannaHowzit:
Chai, so you guys would rather drink your own urine to reach onyiboland than stay in your homeland and develop it? 🇳🇬 I think this article omitted what they ate because its too graphic💩💩💩

Yeah,we brace the odds,reach oyibo land and make it big! Surprised? Whilst u guys keep on hating on us,we buying up ur lands and houses. What are u doing here on Nairaland if not 'to belong' to the elite?
Oh wow....
Someone's muting creating a Randland 😂😂

CJStarz:
Yeah,we brace the odds,reach oyibo land and make it big! Surprised? Whilst u guys keep on hating on us,we buying up ur lands and houses. What are u doing here on Nairaland if not 'to belong' to the elite?
Oh wow....
Someone's muting creating a Randland 😂😂

you forgot to add their women...

we literally take their women and breed them.
that's why they hate us so much cos their women gat real love for us with our doings.

their men sit around all day drinking braii and nkonboti.

WannaHowzit:
SA snow giving you guys a real headache 🤕🤕🤕 didn't know you were so jealous 😂😂😂

Pity Chidimma isn't here to enjoy the snow with us 😢

you want to be a troll and spoil your own thread

we live for these things oo

CJStarz:
Yeah,we brace the odds,reach oyibo land and make it big! Surprised? Whilst u guys keep on hating on us,we buying up ur lands and houses. What are u doing here on Nairaland if not 'to belong' to the elite?
Oh wow....
Someone's muting creating a Randland 😂😂

Which lands and houses? Last time i checked you lived like sardines packed in a tin in one Hillbrow flat. The place has become a no-go area because of the grime you imported from Hunger-geria. All that remains is for you to start openly defecating in the streets of Hillbrow like you do back home 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩💩

arantess:
you forgot to add their women...

we literally take their women and breed them.
that's why they hate us so much cos their women gat real love for us with our doings.
.

How's your spawn Chidimma doing? Has she recovered from the rejection she got from all sectors of SA society? This was a serious blow to Japageria - you're rejects in SA. 🇿🇦😎🏆🏆🏆 Where were the women you breed to defend poor Chidimma and her japagerian father 😢😢😢

WannaHowzit:
Which lands and houses? Last time i checked you lived like sardines packed in a tin in one Hillbrow flat. The place has become a no-go area because of the grime you imported from Hunger-geria. All that remains is for you to start openly defecating in the streets of Hillbrow like you do back home 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩💩

Then why go xenophobic on people who live like 'packed sardines in a Hillbrow flat'?
Mehhn,that shows how petty and docile U guys can be.....no wonder the Whites in your country treat u lots as less than slaves.
Two black women killed n fed to swine by your white owners....u did nuffing.....absolutely nuffing to them,yet u keep hating on ur fellow blacks and people who helped you break d yoke of apartheid.....ungrateful lots.....keep packing snow for your White Masters

arantess:
you forgot to add their women...

we literally take their women and breed them.
that's why they hate us so much cos their women gat real love for us with our doings.

their men sit around all day drinking braii and nkonboti.

Men with big bums and small pri.cks😂😂

CJStarz:
Then why go xenophobic on people who live like 'packed sardines in a Hillbrow flat'?
Mehhn,that shows how petty and docile U guys can be.....no wonder the Whites in your country treat u lots as less than slaves.
Two black women killed n fed to swine by your white owners....u did nuffing.....absolutely nuffing to them,yet u keep hating on ur fellow blacks and people who helped you break d yoke of apartheid.....ungrateful lots.....keep packing snow for your White Masters

Thanks, we're ballin' in the snow - the source of your frustrations this afternoon 😂😂😂 Keep wailing. The snow atleast is covering the crime & grime you imported into SA. That's the source of our xenophobia.

WannaHowzit:
Thanks, we're ballin' in the snow - the source of your frustrations this afternoon 😂😂😂 Keep wailing. The snow atleast is covering the crime & grime you imported into SA. That's the source of our xenophobia.

Hehehehe.... Very childish and immature response from a Southy 😂😂

Nice bantering with you🚶🚶

WannaHowzit:
How's your spawn Chidimma doing? Has she recovered from the rejection she got from all sectors of SA society? This was a serious blow to Japageria - you're rejects in SA. 🇿🇦😎🏆🏆🏆 Where were the women you breed to defend poor Chidimma and her japagerian father 😢😢😢

It's not a rejection, it's a fear of being outbred by a more intelligent and higher IQ'ed breed of Africans.

Not surprising behavior though, didn't your apartheid masters propagate such rhetoric about you, only they were afraid your iQ's were way below 70.


Ahhhhhh. Children of Apartheid, so predictable.

WannaHowzit:
Pity Chidimma isn't here to enjoy the snow with us 😢

You know that girl Chidinma is going to win her case. no? I wont tell you how because we all know you are an undercover gay spy here and will go taddle tale to Home affairs but mark my words Johnny no brain, it's going to happen.

Let me give you a small advice, go read your constitution. All of it.

Sepukku:
It's not a rejection, it's a fear of being outbred by a more intelligent and higher IQ'ed breed of Africans.

Yeah Japageria is a model of development to be emulated by all 😂😂😂

Sepukku:
You know that girl Chidinma is going to win her case. no? I wont tell you how because we all know you are an undercover gay spy here and will go taddle tale to Home affairs but mark my words Johnny no brain, it's going to happen.

Let me give you a small advice, go read your constitution. All of it.

I see you guys still cant sleep at night over this matter - SA really caused you guys national trauma with this 💣💥💥💥 And this snow is just compounding your trauma 😂🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

WannaHowzit:
I see you guys still cant sleep at night over this matter - SA really caused you guys national trauma

Nah we just hate xenophobes and are more vocal about it than your average timid African living in SA.

You did this to a Uganda-South AFrican lady who contested a pageant some years back so its normal behavior for you no surprises there.

WannaHowzit:
And this snow is just compounding your trauma 😂🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

Personally speaking, I have experienced enough snowstorms in my lifetime not to wish the implications of those things on anyone, but I do understand the child like responses by your people towards it.

It was magical for me the first time.

WannaHowzit:
Yeah Japageria is a model of development to be emulated by all 😂😂😂

You are just demonstrating what I am talking about IQ's. I didn't say the country itself. I said the average IQ of the people who inhabit. Two different subject matters.

Pay attention will you.

Sepukku:
You are just demonstrating what I am talking about. I didn't say the country itself. I said the average IQ of the people who inhabit. Two different subject matters.

Pay attention will you.

Average high IQs that can't develop their country to habitable standards & would rather go parasite my taxes in SA? 🇳🇬👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾

WannaHowzit:
How's your spawn Chidimma doing? Has she recovered from the rejection she got from all sectors of SA society? This was a serious blow to Japageria - you're rejects in SA. 🇿🇦😎🏆🏆🏆 Where were the women you breed to defend poor Chidimma and her japagerian father 😢😢😢

she has gone on to greater things where your ugly girls will never attain.

we will keep owning your women and breeding them while you keep drinking nkonboti as you blame the whole world for your frustrations.