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The department says it’s closely monitoring the Ngwathe local municipality in the Free State and Hammanskraal in the City of Tshwane which has been the hotspot for cholera in recent weeks.

The water expert told Eyewitness News on Sunday night that if the source of the deadly outbreak could be traced to tankers, potentially linking it to the Rooiwal wastewater plant, culpability could begin to be proven against the country’s water sector.

The city said law enforcement officers have been dispatched to Hammaskraal to do a stop and search on any vehicle transporting water.

The department said it hoped this would alleviate some of the pressure on the nearby Jubilee District Hospital thats been inundated with people complaining of vomiting, stomach cramps, nausea and fever.

Mchunu and Brink are expected to reveal how they plan to tackle the crisis that has claimed at least 20 lives.

The Pretoria North area has been hit with a cholera outbreak, claiming at least 22 lives. On Friday, political heads from the water department and the Tshwane municipality held a joint media briefing to announce a partnership in tackling the issue.

Over the week, posters of the planned shutdown circulated the details of the planned action on social media.

Hammanskraal has been the hardest area in the country since the outbreak was reported in recent days and government and health authorities are in a race against time to find the source of the disease so that it can be contained.

All Progressive Congress (APC) leader Bola Tinubu (C) gestures towards the crowd during the APC party campaign rally at Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos on February 21,…

As the source of the cholera outbreak remains unknown, residents in Hammanskraal have been urged by the Tshwane municipality to boil any water they receive before drinking it.