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The Commission seeks remedial action while its investigation continues; a fuller report is still to follow.
The SAHRC called for urgent action on the water situation in Bronkhorstspruit and affected parts of Tshwane. Its statement describes a visit and engagement with local authorities, with a fuller report still to follow (SAHRC calls for remedial action, Bronkhorstspruit water).
The Constitution protects access to sufficient water through reasonable state measures within available resources. That legal guarantee gives context to the investigation. It does not establish any particular laboratory result, diagnosis or causal finding in the reported illnesses (Constitution of the Republic of South Africa).
The statement is evidence of the Commission's intervention and of the concerns put to it. It is not presented here as a medical investigation, and the reported hospitalisations are not turned into a verified count of water-caused disease. Current safety instructions should come from the responsible health and water authorities (SAHRC calls for remedial action, Bronkhorstspruit water).
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