One of seven University of Witwatersrand students who died in a fatal minibus taxi crash near Mokopane in Limpopo on Sunday recently graduated with an honours degree in actuarial science. The other six students were busy with studies in the fields of education‚ engineering and social work‚ according to the university’s dean of students‚ Dr Puleng Lenka-Bula.A total of eight people – including the driver – were killed and six others injured in the accident. The taxi caught fire near the NYL plaza toll-gate on the N1 freeway after hitting the trailer of an overturned truck. The student group were travelling back to Johannesburg from a Zion Christian Church pilgrimage they had attended in Moletjie‚ just outside Polokwane.Lenla-Buka said the deaths were truly a sad loss for the university.“When a university loses young minds committed to procuring knowledge to advance themselves as an individual but also Africa …it is a sad‚ sad loss…it is a loss to South Africa‚” she said.She said the university would not release the names of those who died in the accident until the police investigation was concluded.Three of the students who were injured in the crash were in the Mokopane Hospital while the others were in the Voortrekker and Netcare hospitals in Polokwane.Lenka-Bula said she could not provide details on their injuries as doctors were still busy making their observations.She added that the university‚ with the support of the MEC of Health in Limpopo‚ would assist in transporting the students to Gauteng where they would have access to specialists‚ including those based at the university‚ if necessary.The university’s flag was lowered to half-mast in honour of the students who died in the accident...