Disaster

'The cries and screams are still in my head': villagers recall horrific Eastern Cape bus crash

‘We didn’t want the souls to perish down there’

08 March 2020 - 00:01 By BELINDA PHETO

For almost five hours, Matiwana Dodosana clambered up and down the rocky 300m embankment, carrying injured bus passengers to safety...

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