Cape Town is running out of air conditioners

Temperatures have been hovering around 30 degrees C day after day, with no rain breaking up the heat as usually happens this time of year.

The average temperature high this January has been 30 degrees C - last January it was only 27 degrees. This month has had 0 mm rain fall. Last year we had 4mm.

Higgovale resident Charlotte van Niekerk told Health24 via email that she has had to wait three weeks to get a company to install two air conditioning units into her house where the temperature rose to a dangerous 37 - 38 degrees C in the afternoon.