Sedie survivors recount the tragedy

He was relating how a teammate and classmate (name withheld) died on that fateful Monday when their trip from Gaborone ended tragically at Mmashoro.

Ngande, a Form Three student at Sedie Community Junior Secondary School (CJSS), says he was lucky to have escaped the fire that swallowed some of his team-mates. " I regard myself as very lucky. I must have been sitting somewhere at the back when the tragedy struck," he told Mmegi in an interview at the Sedie CJSS premises this week. The lanky striker only remembers dashing from the back of the bus. "That's all I can remember. The rest of the stories, that I was picked up from the bus door are all what I was told."