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Needs Camp man found dead  in wheelbarrow

Needs Camp man found dead in wheelbarrow

EAST London police are investigating murder following the discovery of the body of a 23-year-old Needs Camp man lying in a wheelbarrow at the gate of the local clinic.

DOWN BUT NOT OUT: Jikindaba Senior Secondary School Grade 10 pupil Okuhle Diniso, 17, is one of the survivors of the Flagstaff bakkie crash that  killed four of her schoolmates this week. On the bed behind her, her classmate and cousin Nomandla Mayedwa, 16, is attended to by her mother  Diziwe Mayedwa at the Holy Cross Hospital in Flagstaff  Picture: LULAMILE FENI

Death van driver ‘was speeding’

THE van in which four pupils from a Transkei school were killed earlier this week was travelling unusually fast and the driver had ignored pleas by pupils to slow down, one of the survivors said.

DEATH TRAP: Four Jikindaba Senior Secondary School pupils died when  this bakkie overturned  near Mkhambatha Nature Reserve The bakkie that killed four pupils shortly after the accident. Picture: SUPPLIED

Another 4 schoolkids killed

BARELY a month since six pupils were killed in a bakkie accident in the Eastern Cape, a further four died this week on their way from school in the Transkei.

XOLELA MANGCU

Insight: Grappling with Big Joe’s death from afar

I HEAR from across the Atlantic Ocean that Andile “Big Joe” died in a car accident on his way to a meeting. Well, Steve Biko died on his way from a meeting. I suppose that’s what happens to leaders and sometimes they pay the ultimate price for it, even if in different ways.

HELP IS AT HAND: One of the 30 people who were injured when two Metro Rail trains collided at the East London station yesterday is stretchered away for treatment at Frere Hospital. Picture: STEPHANIE LLOYD

30 injured as passenger trains collide

THIRTY people were injured when two Metro Rail passenger trains collided yesterday afternoon at the East London station.

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One killed, 23 hurt in crash

A BUS accident in Transkei has claimed the life of a woman and left more than 20 passengers in hospital after it overturned early yesterday morning.

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Road rage fight after accident

A COLLISION on the corner of the Mdantsane Access Road and Robbie de Lange Road led to a road rage assault case after the drivers allegedly became embroiled in a fight.

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