Eight hundred and thirty-three people in the Bronkhorstspruit area of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality have now fallen ill, a figure that has more than doubled from the 408 cases reported earlier. The culprit is contaminated water, and the numbers are still climbing.
Bronkhorstspruit is a community that deserves better, and the scale of this outbreak makes it impossible to look away. Gastrointestinal illness sounds clinical, but for the families affected, it means pain, dehydration, and days lost to a crisis that clean water could have prevented.
With cases continuing to rise, the question everyone in Tshwane should be asking is simple: what is being done right now to fix the water?
Originally published by AllAfrica.