{"id":965845,"date":"2024-07-15T17:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965845"},"modified":"2024-07-15T17:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T17:04:52","slug":"mec-chiloane-to-attend-memorial-of-pupils-killed-in-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mec-chiloane-to-attend-memorial-of-pupils-killed-in-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC Chiloane to attend memorial of pupils killed in accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Gauteng<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0Education\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">MEC<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Matome<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Chiloane<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> will on Tuesday attend a memorial service for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/gauteng-scholar-transport-accident-claims-12-students-and-driver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 learners who lost their lives<\/a> during the devastating car crash that took place in <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Merafong<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">, west of Johannesburg last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">The service will be held at the Grace Bible Church in Carletonville<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">It is alleged that the minibus was hit from behind by a <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">bakkie<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">, causing it to overturn and subsequently catch fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Gauteng<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0Education spokesperson Steve\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Mabona says, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">&#8220;As you will recall that this incident occurred in and around Kokosi-Wedela area in Merafong, resulting in the loss of 11 learners and their driver that was driving the learners to school.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The video is reporting more on the story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nu5Cuxcf4Yc?si=VD8V6VNuJpSjoPvH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Chiloane visited the families of the learners.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are currently investigating the circumstances around the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DNA samples have been taken from family members of the learners.<\/p>\n<p>One of the survivors, a 12-year-old girl, and her parents, have spoken exclusively to <em>SABC News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B44dhWK7qVM?si=A9FsDiVP9AYsFdHz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The service will be held at the Grace Bible Church in Carletonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":965846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[1861,1107,1862],"class_list":["post-965845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-carletonville","tag-matome-chiloane","tag-merafong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}