At least 18 people have been killed and 30 others injured in five separate accidents across the country in the past 24 hours. In the latest accident, four people were killed and more than 25 injured when a bus transporting ZCC members overturned on the N1 in Mookgopong, Limpopo.

In the same province two people were killed and ten seriously injured when a minibus taxi overturned on the R71 in Mankweng outside Polokwane.

Still in Limpopo, five people were killed in an accident involving a truck and a car in Makhado.

In the Free State, four people were killed and three injured in a collision between two vehicles in Welkom and in the Northern Cape three people have been killed after the car they were travelling in rolled down an embankment outside Kuruman.

Limpopo Roads and Transport spokesperson Kagiso Mootane says, “The one that happened at Mookgopong, between Mookgopong and Modimolle, which was a bus from Modjadji, the one that was carrying a ZCC members from Gauteng province that are residents of Limpopo, where we lost four people and the other one is that one at Makhado we lost five people. And at Mankweng, around Ga-Thoka, a Toyota quantum was travelling at R71 from Tzaneen direction where a Toyota quantum lost control and overturned. We lost two people there on the scene.”
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