'I watched her drown'
He watched her sister drown that fateful day in 1985 when a school bus plunged into the Westdene Dam — and 40 years later it still feels like yesterday.
"This time of the year is very bad," says Annette Labuschagne, 58, then a first-year student at the then Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit. She had gone to her grandmother's house in Westdene and was waiting for her 16-year-old sister, Rita Botha, to come back from Hoërskool Vorentoe.
"I just arrived at her house and she asked me to go to the shop to buy milk and I remember saying that if I waited a little longer Rita would be back from school and then she could walk with me..."
Labuschagne said she remembers hearing a noise and running to the scullery window to get a glimpse of the dam... and saw something in the dam.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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