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My two-hour “detention” while reporting on water challenges in Bronkhorstspruit

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Juvenile Nahasse, who lives in Zithobeni in Bronkhorstspruit, shows a bucket of discoloured water he fetched from a tap in his home on 22 September. Photo: Warren Mabona
On 22 September, I visited the community of Zithobeni in Bronkhorstspruit after being informed about water challenges experienced by households there.
I arrived early. The residents welcomed me. They said their tap water had been discoloured for two weeks without any explanation from the municipality. I began interviewing them and taking photographs of the discoloured water.
At about 10:30am, as I was leaving the home of a resident I had just interviewed, I was approached by an angry man who said he was a Zithobeni resident “who wanted to make sure people…

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