Taxi bodies can do more

The tragedy that happened in Vanderbijlpark resulting in the loss of 14 lives of school kids will most likely happen again.

- Sydney Majoko

It might be in Limpopo or the Eastern Cape, or any other province because the conditions that resulted in this horrific accident exist all over the country.

Poor parents in economically disadvantaged townships believe that one way of ensuring a brighter future for their kids is to send them to better schools in town and their primary mode of transportation are minibus taxis like the one that collided with a truck in this instance.

And because this country is obsessed with finding quick reasons for huge tragedies like these, it was quickly discovered that the driver of the minibus taxi was driving with an expired public driver's permit (PDP).

The minibus taxi itself apparently did not have a government issued scholar transport permit.

What no-one has asked is in what way would the driver being in possession of those two documents have prevented the accident from happening.