Pretoria – A memorial service for the 30 victims of the Moloto Road crash will be held in Mpumalanga today.
The victims died in a collision involving two trucks, a bakkie and a bus on Moloto Road, near Kwaggafontein, on Monday night.
The memorial service, which is a tribute by the Mpumalanga Provincial Government and various stakeholders, will be held at the Matshiding Showground in the Dr JS Moroka Municipality.
A mass funeral service, which will be held at the same venue, is scheduled to take place on Sunday from 7am.
Team to probe crash
Meanwhile, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has appointed a high level investigation team to unearth the cause of the fatal crash.
Departmental spokesperson Tiyani Rikhotso said the high level investigation team comprises officials from the department, Road Traffic Management Corporation and the Mpumalanga provincial government.
Peters said the team’s brief was not limited to determining what caused the crash, but also included coming up with proposed interventions to prevent such crashes.
She said if anyone was found to be at fault, they must face the full might of the law.
The Department of Transport has been aware of the challenges along the Moloto corridor. An inter-governmental steering committee (National Department of Transport and the provinces of Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo, including their respective municipalities) was established to conduct a feasibility study that would determine long term interventions for the corridor.
A political committee including the Minister of Transport, the Premiers of the three affected provinces and their respective MECs, and the mayors of the municipalities concerned is also seized with the issue of finding long term solutions to challenges on the Moloto corridor. – SAnews.gov.za
