{"id":231157,"date":"2020-02-17T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T07:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/231157\/two-learners-killed-early-morning-taxi-accident-olifantsfontein\/"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T07:19:40","slug":"two-learners-killed-early-morning-taxi-accident-olifantsfontein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/17\/two-learners-killed-early-morning-taxi-accident-olifantsfontein\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAPHIC CONTENT: Two learners killed in early morning taxi accident in Olifantsfontein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two learners were killed on Monday morning when the taxi they were travelling in was involved in an accident near Tembisa.<\/p>\n<p>According to Steve Mabona, Gauteng Department of Education spokesperson, MEC Panyaza Lesufi is on his way to the scene.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>According to Mabona the taxi was ferrying learners to a school around Olifantsfontein when it was involved in a collision with a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the accident occurred on the M57 near Moonlight Road. There were 18 learners in the taxi. Sixteen were transported to Tembisa Hospital.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Tembisan is on its way there and more information will follow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GOT THIS BREAKING NEWS JUST NOW: I AM RUSHING TO THE SCENE. { Morning MEC sad news we just lost 2 learners from Madibatlo Promarh School through the accident. Their taxi to school was hit by the scooter so badly that two learners died. We have dispatched our psycho social team}<\/p>&mdash; Panyaza Lesufi (@Lesufi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Lesufi\/status\/1229297232559640576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_100262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100262\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100262\" src=\"https:\/\/tembisan.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/02\/taxi-accident-copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two learners travelling in this taxi were killed this morning. Photograph supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='7541f3c90ec2b75ecd85cafce2c4d20f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen others were transported to Tembisa Hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2289,"featured_media":231158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tembisan","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}