Jacaranda FM Newswatch @ 07H00

0:00Here are the maximum spots on this Friday, Gilbert getting into the weekend on 20 degrees, Victoria 21, Polakwane up to 25. So there is massive delays in the mid-round area, a 30-minute delay on the N1 south from Braque-Fontaine to Ulyfans-Fontaine, a 27-minute delay on Ulyfans-Fontaine east heading towards the highway and a 23-minute delay if you're heading in the west direction trying to get on the highway. When your Sport Marker marks a Nadine risk, claim the top prizes at the SA rugby play of the year awards and trouble Tottenham planned even deeper inter-religation danger after a damaging defeat to Palace. We start in Harding, where police are concerned over our spike in kidnappings. Harding Police Commissioner Dominic Tambani tabled the latest crimes that's yesterday that showed 52 kidnapping cases were reported between October and December last year. But when you check on kidnappings for ransom, it's 188, which the number is a worrisome.

1:02To confirm to say it's a multiple syndicate. City Power says it disconnected seven hijack buildings across Johannesburg, CBD, as part of the latest enforcement operations. City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangaina says the multi-agency operation exposed illegal reconnections and arrears, totaling more than 14.6 million rent. Obviously, with the hijack buildings, it is a very big concern for us in the City of Johannesburg. Government says the sentencing of former member of Parliament, Vincent Smith, reflects its commitment to intensify the fight against corruption and ensure that those who abuse public resources are held accountable. The job at High Court Sentence Smith to seven years behind bars on charges that include fraud and corruption linked to receiving kickbacks from Bussasa. He news from beyond our borders on the seventh day of the US and Israeli attacks on Iran heavy strikes on the Iranian capital of Tehran early this morning. This comes after Israel said it was hitting regime infrastructure in a new phase of the

2:07war. US Defense Secretary Pete Hexach also announced firepower over Iran and over Tehran is about to surge dramatically. Yet while the world fears a shortage of oil and fuel prices is climbing dramatically with the state of Hamas effectively now closed, a fifth of the world's oil gets transported through that waterway. Director of the political futures consultancy, Daniel Sulk warns of the knock-un-effect beyond just the price of petrol and diesel. Effect Petrochemicals in the broad sense and Petrochemicals are used in a very wide industry. Just to take one example in the vehicle manufacturing industry, the compound of rubber certainly has a Petrochemical base to it and that will push up the price of parts for technology and vehicles as well. Listen to that whole interview at JackarandaFM.com, click on news. And when it comes to this weekend's weather, we are learning something new called a tropical temperate trough, or for those of us in the know, a TTT.

3:11This is a system that will further develop over the eastern and northern eastern parts of the South Africa today and that will bring all this rain. This type of weather system transports large amounts of tropical moisture into South Africa and often leads to widespread and persistent rainfall. With a forecast that Tukkele-Chilewanis is a number of weather warnings have been issued today for severe thunderstorms with hard rain over six provinces that includes heart ting, pulmalanga, and popo, the north-west and the free-state. More about the local and international stories is at JackarandaFM.com, click on news. Am I the only person who ever only wants to know, is it going to rain or not? I mean, these other deep explanations show me I'm glad that they are there, but it's just, isn't it? Oh, Mark? When you check an app or something, does the average person really want to know all that? Well, if it is heart-drained, I would like to know it and I would like to know when the TTT is coming and when the TTT leaves and now we can speak about that this weekend and be very clever.

4:11Is it a small TTT or is it a big TTT? I'm so glad that you asked that this is an intense TTT at the end of the rain forest. Stop it. And yeah, it will, the name, the word trough, is in the name. Okay. I mean, you say, actually, you must not have to worry about it, because it's a TTT, you know? I'm not, I'm not obvious, and I said, like, you're for my pain.