South Africa

SA’s Health Minister to Oversee Recovery Efforts in Limpopo Bus Crash Tragedy

today2 April, 2024

Background

Today, SA’s Health Minister Joe Phaahla will supervise the progress made by health authorities in Limpopo as they endeavor to identify and repatriate the victims and remains of a bus crash. Last week Thursday, forty-five individuals lost their lives in the accident that transpired at the Mmamatlakala bridge on the R518 in Limpopo, as a bus carrying passengers from Botswana to Moria crashed. According to Foster Mohale, spokesperson for the Health Department, the sole survivor of the crash is an eight-year-old child who sustained severe injuries.

Written by: Leonard Witbeen