Matsha student warned driver of overloaded truck

He told The Monitor yesterday at the Molepolole College of Education where they are attending a six-month counselling session that he warned the driver that the truck was overloaded.

“I finished early and waited for others in the truck that was parked by the gate.  Other students started to board the truck, but quickly the truck was too full, and overloaded.  There was no space for others to sit down.  I personally went up to the driver and alerted him of what was going on. “I told him it was overloaded. He did not bother to check for himself and instead told me that if I had a problem with it I was free to use public transport,” said the student, adding that he had no choice but to join the others on the dangerous journey. Just before Dutlwe village in the Kweneng District, the truck overturned killing seven students on the day and another died a month later.