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The pupils who died watery death
The Citizen
|March 27, 2025
TRAGEDY: STILL NO CLUE OF WHAT CAUSED CRASH
A Full 40 years after 42 pupils from Hoërskool Vorentoe drowned, nobody knows what caused the yellow double-decker bus to crash into the Westdene Dam on 27 March, 1985.
According to the Hoërskool Vorentoe's Westdene Bus Disaster memorial page, the cause of the accident was still not known.
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