While families cope with the grief of losing 17 children and a teacher after a truck smashed into a school transport vehicle three weeks ago, an enraged northern KZN community is turning away trucks from the N2 and demanding action.
Thandi Simelani, 40, laughs as she remembers her daughter Thingo’s antics. “If she were here, she would have asked a hundred questions by now, jumping off the couches, back and forth to the door,” Simelani says.
Thandi Simelani, 40, says her whole family is inconsolable over the death of her five-year-old daughter Thingo Simelani. Simelani says she is trying to make peace with her daughter’s death, but can’t yet face the truck driver. “I don’t even want to see the driver or be part of the case, to him our children are just numbers, but to us, they are very important people, Thingo is the youngest of my two children, her sister is 17 years old so now all that love and hope we were nurturing, it feels like it was for nothing. The house is empty and boring now,” said Simelani.
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