Friday, 5 May 2017 – National Assembly Speaker Ms Baleka Mbete will attend Saturday’s funeral service in Verena, Mpumalanga, for a teacher and 16 of the schoolchildren who lost their lives in the horror minibus crash near Bronkhorstspruit on 21 April.

Parliament’s thoughts remain with the families, friends and teachers of the victims who perished so prematurely and tragically.

ISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

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