The SA Weather Service said two winter systems were moving over the country and their impact was expected to continue into the weekend.
The Barkly Pass on the R58 is still open to traffic, but it was snowing with misty and icy conditions starting to develop on top of the pass.Icy temperatures, snow and rain have hit parts of the country on Friday as a cold front sweeps through.
Engelbrecht said there were also reports of snowfall in high-lying areas of the Western Cape and the Sneeuberg and Winterberg mountains in the Eastern Cape. Marlon Attwell from Mountain Shadows Hotel in Elliot in the Eastern Cape told TimesLIVE they started receiving snowfall at about 8pm on Thursday.
The Eastern Cape department of transport said light snowfall fell at the Lootsberg Pass on the N9 between Graaff-Reinet and Middelburg and on the Wapadsberg Pass on the R61 between Graaff-Reinet and Cradock.
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