Community leaders said that residents were in need of donations of blankets, clothes, school stationery and food.
The South African Weather Service said temperatures would become cooler towards the end of the week.
The utility is currently experiencing capacity constraints because of the cold weather.
By Dr Jack.
Today is the coldest day of the cold front in Johannesburg, which will start improving from the weekend.
In some parts of the country, including in Soweto and Vereeniging, residents have woken up to freezing temperatures, with the mercury dipping to minus one, and only expected to reach maximums of around 13 degrees Celsius.
The Weather Services is expecting snowfall in the Drakensberg mountain on Wednesday morning, which will result in a huge drop in temperatures.
The South African Weather Services says the cold snap will end on Sunday.
Siberian weather system forecasters have called the ‘beast from the east’ brought snow, strong winds and the coldest temperatures for years to many regions across Europe.
A girl in Oklahoma City found it hard to make it up her driveway with her wheelie bin after ice covered it. CNN reports.
Eskom is working around the clock to re-connect thousands of informal settlements left in the dark following a powerful storm.
Forecaster Wayne Venter says maximum temperatures in parts of Gauteng will peak at around 16 degrees.
A weather forecaster says that Cape Town can expect to have cold fronts all the way into November.
A cold front is heading towards the Cape, bringing with it strong winds, rain and possibly even snow.
Temperatures are expected to drop in Gauteng and the Western Cape.
Emergency services officials in Kwazulu-Natal say roads and bridges are still flooded.
Some of the coldest areas in the province today include, Kempton Park, Springs and Soweto.
The weather service is warning of rainfall in Gauteng, the Western Cape & Northern Cape later this week.
