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Saturday, 24 October 2026
Tshwane's contaminated water crisis in Bronkhorstspruit dominated this Saturday's Weekend View, alongside Western Cape taxi violence and early campaigning ahead of the November elections.
- 06:07
Around 408 people, most of them children under four, fell ill after Bronkhorstspruit residents were not told the plant's water had not been chlorinated and was unsafe to drink.
- 06:48
Tshwane's executive mayor Nasiphi Moya accepted the city's responsibility for the outbreak, acknowledging that inadequate chlorination contributed, and said consequences will follow where negligence is established.
- 06:48
The Public Protector is seeking answers from the city over the contamination and the circumstances that led to the outbreak.
- 06:58
The plant is overloaded, and Tshwane missed every deadline in a plan drawn up after a February warning from the Department of Water and Sanitation.
- 06:02
Western Cape authorities are investigating taxi operators allegedly involved in a spate of shootings, including a Delft incident that killed two people, one of them a member of the public.