Gift of the Givers helps out after three netball players, including one official died in crash
Disaster relief organisation, Gift of the Givers, brought much needed relief to assist a netball team which was involved in a fatal bus crash with trauma counselling food and transport to be reunited with their families after three team members and a coach were killed when the bus they were travelling in crashed on Sunday morning.
The bus was carrying two teams from the OR Tambo District when it was involved in an accident in Aberdeen, Eastern Cape around 4 am on Sunday.
Director Imtiaz Sooliman, said that the Eastern Cape MEC of Sport, Arts and Culture, Fezeka Nkomonye, requested assistance from the charitable organisation.
The accident took place in Aberdeen, a small town in the Sarah Baartman District Municipality of the Eastern Cape, at around 4am on Sunday.
The team were on their way to participate in the SA National Netball tournament in Cape Town when the fatal horror bus accident happened – the SA National Netball tournament will still go ahead with proceedings, despite the traumatic accident, the tournament is set to kick off this Monday.
Source: IOL, EWN
