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Tshwane water is “unsafe for human consumption”, Parliament hears

Criminal case opened after hundreds of people fall ill with gastrointestinal illnesses due to unchlorinated drinking water in Tshwane

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. Less than a month later, the government finally confirmed that the water system had been contaminated. Archive photo: Warren Mabona

The City of Tshwane’s chlorination challenges have extended beyond Bronkhorstspruit, where nearly 600 people reportedly contracted gastrointestinal illnesses in recent weeks due to unchlorinated, sewage-polluted water.
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) revealed in Parliament on Friday that tests at a water treatment works supplying the Pretoria city centre had found the water to be “unsafe for human consumption”.
Water department officials were briefing the portfolio committee on health over the water crisis in…

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