Police are looking for the driver of a car who might be able to explain the crash involving a vehicle transporting President Jacob Zuma's children outside Pietermaritzburg on Friday.
It emerged yesterday that the black car had allegedly bumped into the Toyota Etios carrying three of Zuma's children - with estranged wife Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma - and four other occupants. The children, who suffered mainly spinal and rib injuries, have reportedly said the driver of the black car had driven away after colliding with them.
Investigators said the children would not have survived were it not for the "experienced driver" of their vehicle, understood to be a member of the police.
They were travelling towards Pietermaritzburg along the Greytown Road when the car veered off the road and rolled down an embankment before coming to rest on its roof.
KwaZulu-Natal police spokesman Major Thulani Zwane said the black car's role in the accident "is part of our investigation".
Police are probing a case of reckless and negligent driving. No arrests have yet been made.
A veil of secrecy has been thrown over the condition of the Zuma children, who are still in Pietermaritzburg's St Anne's Hospital. Zwane referred queries to the hospital, which in turn directed questions to presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj, who had no update.
The president visited the hospital twice at the weekend. He and his estranged wife were seen together for the first time since reports that she might have been part of a plot to poison him.
At the scene of the crash, a boy's black Puma shoe, a size-3 girl's shoe, a shattered windscreen and a broken lamppost were the only visible signs of an accident.
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