Pic: Antonie De Ras

Shoulders slumped under an oversized jacket, Thomas Nkhata clutched a ragged black file carrying the few official documents he had left of his wife Lydia.

His eyes wandered around the Saul Tsotetsi Sports Complex in Sebokeng where he and the other families of victims of the Meyerton bus crash were about to meet officials from the Sedibeng District Municipality on Thursday to discuss funeral arrangements for the 19 people killed in the crash.

The Putco bus was carrying 74 passengers and travelling from Sebokeng towards Meyerton on the R59 when it crashed into the barrier line of a bridge.

Nkhata’s wife Lydia was killed. She was 47.

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