{"id":48618,"date":"2026-10-21T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48618"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:01:10","slug":"sas-party-calls-for-tshwane-accountability-cver-bronkhorstspruit-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-party-calls-for-tshwane-accountability-cver-bronkhorstspruit-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s party calls for Tshwane accountability cver Bronkhorstspruit water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Democratic Alliance (DA) party says the City of Tshwane needs to be held accountable for the operational failure over the Bronkhorstspruit water crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>This after 400 people including children fell ill, with the water from the Bronkhorstspruit Treatment Works declared unfit for human consumption.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>In light of this, the DA has lodged a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission against the City.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>DA Tshwane Mayoral Candidate Cilliers Brink accuses the municipality of ignoring the signs in order to make money through the deployment of water tankers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\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-48618","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"This after 400 people including children fell ill.","published_date":"","news_description":"This after 400 people including children fell ill.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48618","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\/48618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48620,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48618\/revisions\/48620"}],"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=48618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}