Taxi involved in collision: ANC MP dies
ANC MP Timothy Khoza has died in a vehicle crash involving a minibus taxi.
Jacaranda FM News has been reliably informed that the minibus the MP and his colleagues were travelling in, collided with a taxi near Paarl this morning.
The MPs were on their way to conduct oversight visits at schools in Paarl.
ER24 confirms one man was killed and eight others injured when a minibus and taxi collided on the R301 between Paarl and Franschhoek in the Western Cape.
ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring says paramedics were called to the scene at 08:06.
He says the taxi was found in the middle of the road facing oncoming traffic.
"The minibus was found lying on its roof on the side of the road. On inspection, paramedics discovered the lifeless body of a man lying inside the overturned minibus. Unfortunately, the man had already succumbed to his multiple injuries," he says.
Jacaranda FM News spoke to the spokesperson for the ANC chief whip, Nonceba Mahlauli.