Solar storm brought rarely seen aurora to SA - but may have caused internet cable outage
A Gansbaai photographer captured a rare sighting of the geostorm. The storm may also have caused internet disruptions in South Africa and East African countries.
This weekend's extreme solar storm brought sightings of the aurora australis, or southern lights, to South Africa for the first time since 1989, but it also may have been the reason for an internet outage that hit SA and several east African countries on Sunday. This is the feedback from Jonathan Ward, interim executive director at South African National Space Agency : Space Science, after the most intense solar storm in two decades hit the world this weekend.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism.
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