Students and staff gathered in song and prayer on Friday at the University of the Witwatersrand to mourn the lives of fellow students killed in a fatal road accident at the weekend. Wits Student Representative Council president Nompendulo Mkhatshwa‚ addressing the mourners gathered at the Education campus in Parktown‚ Johannesburg‚ said the country had lost seven brilliant minds‚ who had their whole lives ahead of them.Student Menzi Hlatshwayo said he was there to offer his support in this time of sadness as the university started its 10 days of mourning."As the ZCC (Zion Christian Church)‚ they could not have organised something like this march‚ but we as the students decided to unite and show up in numbers. We sing because music helps with the healing‚" Hlatshwayo said.Gregory Msibi‚ a student at the Education campus‚ said he was devastated by passing of the seven students."You know that education is the pillar of every successful country. And we have lost two future leaders who would have changed the world‚" said Msibi.The crowd of approximately 200 people‚ mostly dressed in black and carrying candles‚ consisting of students‚ cleaners and university staff sang church songs and prayed before embarking on a march to the main campus. Students controlled the traffic themselves as they peacefully marched down Empire Road.At the Braamfontein campus‚ the crowd was welcomed by Dr Puleng Lenka-Bula‚ executive management of the university.The students were killed when the taxi they were travelling in caught fire near the Nyl Plaza tollgate on the N1 freeway after hitting the trailer of an overturned truck on Sunday. They were heading back to Johannesburg from a Zion Christian Church pilgrimage they had attended in Moletjie‚ just outside Polokwane. The university said in a statement earlier this week that four of the six students who survived the accident were receiving treatment in the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital. “They were admitted and are sharing a ward in the hospital. One student has been discharged and is doing well. Another has been moved to a private hospital in Mokopane.”The university said that the official memorial service and funerals of the deceased students would be announced after DNA and forensic tests had been finalised...