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A three-day heatwave has had the city sweating under scorching temperatures but the mercury will drop on Friday. Senior SA Weather Service forecaster Deon van der Mescht said the heatwave, which started on Tuesday, would end on Thursday night. Van der Mescht said: “Frontal weather will pass by south of the country today [Thursday].
The distraught mother of Reuben Le Roux, a 15-month-old Gonubie toddler who was mauled to death recently by a neighbour’s pit bull, fully supports calls for the banning of the breed. Reuben’s death rocked the country, with mounting calls for a ban on pit bulls in SA. Maryke van der Mescht, 37, of Hollows Farm, on Friday said her family was devastated by the sudden death of Reuben late last month.
The Cambridge crematorium filled with the sounds of anguished sobs as 15-month-old Ruben Roux's small white coffin was slowly lowered out of sight on Tuesday.
People have described the horror of seeing a toddler seized by the throat by a pit bull on Wednesday on a Gonubie smallholding and shaken like a rag doll.
After an ideal start to their European Champions Cup campaign, Connacht face an altogether tougher task when they travel to the home of current Premiership leaders Leicester Tigers for Sunday's second round fixture.