News24 | 5 pupils killed, 8 injured as taxi crashes into crèche in KZN

Mbali crash: Scholar safety high on the Transport agenda

While extending their condolences to the grieving families of those learners who lost their lives in the Mbali taxi crash on 11 September, the national transport ministry committed to addressing two pertinent scholar matters. Transport Minister, Barbara Creecy and her deputy, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, said on Friday that an investigation into the taxi crash that claimed the lives of five learners would conclude within 48 hours. The pair also committed t…

Death toll in scholar taxi crash rises to 5, MEC orders probe into allegations driver jumped out

The number of children who died when the scholar transport taxi they were travelling in crashed into a creche outside Pietermaritzburg on Thursday morning has risen to five.

News24 | 5 pupils killed, 8 injured as taxi crashes into crèche in KZN

Five pupils were killed and eight others injured when a taxi lost control and crashed into a crèche in the Imbali area of Pietermaritzburg on Thursday morning.

Pietermaritzburg crash death toll rises to four

Pietermaritzburg crash death toll rises to four Estelle.Bronkhorst Fri, 09/12/2025 - 11:50 JOHANNESBURG - The death toll from Thursday’s accident has risen to four.A taxi crashed into a crèche in Imbali, just outside Pietermaritzburg.Eleven children were injured, three of them critically.An eyewitness said she and other community members tried to rescue the pupils from the vehicle.

KZN news bites: Five children killed when taxi crashes into their school

Celani Sikhakhane brings you KwaZulu-Natal’s latest news. Pietermaritzburg: Transport Minister Siboniso Duma has sent his condolences to the families of five children who died in a horrific car accident at Imbali Township Unit 28 in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday. Duma says he is working with other ministers and mayors to speed up help. The children were from Senzokuhle Pre School. “According to a first report, a taxi driver lost control of his mi…

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The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education has confirmed that the learners who were involved in a crash that claimed five lives and injured nine Pietermaritzburg are from several schools in the Umgungundlovu District. The pupils were all passengers in the taxi, which was being used as a scholar transport. Three children lost their lives in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg after a scholar transport taxi crashed into a crèche. Mlondi Radebe reports. pic.t…