{"id":48511,"date":"2026-10-20T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48511"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:23:24","slug":"sa-probes-chlorine-shortage-after-gastrointestinal-illness-hits-hundreds-in-tshwane","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-probes-chlorine-shortage-after-gastrointestinal-illness-hits-hundreds-in-tshwane\/","title":{"rendered":"SA probes chlorine shortage after gastrointestinal illness hits hundreds in Tshwane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A shortage of chlorine at a water treatment plant in Tshwane, South Africa (SA), is being investigated following an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness that has affected hundreds of people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tshwane Mayor Doctor Nasiphi Moya says the city ran out of chlorine, a chemical used to disinfect drinking water, after failing to reach an agreement with a supplier over increased prices.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Moya says the city accepts responsibility for the failure.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe do have an issue with the supplier. We&#8217;ve got one of those suppliers for chlorine where we, it&#8217;s monopoly. So what has happened is that the supplier basically increased the prices astronomically and we tried to negotiate and we couldn&#8217;t. We take responsibility for the negligence because it was during that time that then we ran out of chlorine and broncho sprayed.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44046,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-48511","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Moya says the city accepts responsibility for the failure. ","published_date":"","news_description":"Moya says the city accepts responsibility for the failure. ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48513,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48511\/revisions\/48513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}