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A sixth pupil involved in a fatal crash along AZ Berman Drive in Mitchells Plain at the end of May, has died in hospital.



Mninikhaya Mvuli, arrested after the death of five children who were flung off his bakkie in a crash in Mitchells Plain, appeared in court briefly for his lawyer to go on record.

“You felt the love of individuals coming together and like the children were your own,” stated Mitchells Plain

Scholar driver Mninikhaya Mvuli will appear in court again on Monday for a bail application, which is opposed by the State.

Hundreds of people gathered in Mitchells Plain on Thursday night at a memorial service to pay tribute to the five children who died in a crash earlier this week.

The horror crash had sent shock-waves through Cape Town on Tuesday morning when news spread of the pupils, transported on the back of the bakkie, being flung out of the vehicle which rolled along A Z Berman Road just after 7.30am.

The man accused of killing five pupils from Khayelitsha in a horror car crash on AZ Berman Drive in Beacon Valley, Mitchells Plain, on Tuesday has appeared in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate's Court. 



Five Mitchells Plain schools are in mourning after the death of five pupils in a horror crash along AZ Berman Drive in Beacon Valley on Tuesday morning.

There were tears of shock at the horrific scene where the bodies of five children lay scattered in the road after the bakkie they were travelling in to get to school rolled several times and crashed in Mitchells Plain.

Parents of the five pupils who were killed in a horrific crash on AZ Berman Drive in Beacon Valley on Tuesday had the daunting task of identifying their children's bodies at the Observatory Forensic Pathology Institute on Wednesday morning.