A truck-bus collision in northern South Africa leaves 20 {dead}, most of them miners going to work

JOHANNESBURG — A head-on collision between a truck and a bus ferrying staff to a mine in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province left 20 individuals {dead}, authorities mentioned Monday.

Development firm Murray & Roberts Cementation mentioned 17 of its staff, who had been being transported to the Venetia mine in Musina near the Zimbabwe border, died within the accident on Sunday. 4 different staff had been injured.

The corporate mentioned it was providing assist to the households of the deceased.

The employees had been reportedly going to work on an underground mission at a mine owned by mining big De Beers.

Site visitors officers had been nonetheless on the scene of the accident on Monday to research the trigger.

Provincial Transport Minister Florence Radzilani, who visited the crash web site Monday, lamented the state of among the vehicles that journey on the roads.

“We at all times discuss to our legislation enforcement officers and ship out messages to those drivers to say they have to ensure that the automobile is roadworthy, so that you simply don’t put the lives of harmless individuals in danger,” she mentioned.

Radzilani mentioned some truckers averted roads had been they know site visitors officers are extremely seen as a result of among the autos had been unroadworthy or the drivers didn’t have legitimate permits.

“We’re ready on investigators however there are already allegations in regards to the truck driver not a having a license and the truck not being roadworthy,” she instructed public broadcaster SABC.