An AeroGulf helicopter crashed into the sea on Thursday evening and a search is underway for its crew of two pilots, the UAE's general aviation authority said on Friday. The crash occurred off the coast of Dubai after the helicopter had taken off from Al Maktoum International Airport. One of the pilots of the Bell 212 helicopter is Egyptian and the other is South African, the aviation regulator said. "The […]
By Aneeqa du Plessis Citizens have been urged to refrain from posting insensitive footage of crime scenes or accidents on social media before the families of the victims have been informed. This comes after the tragic accident that claimed the lives of five children in Mitchells Plain last week was spewed all over social media before parents and caregivers were informed. Speaking on VOC’s Education Indaba on Sunday evening, Minister […]
Thirty eight people died and about 80 were wounded in central Senegal after two buses collided in the early hours of Sunday, local officials and President Macky Sall said in statements. The crash, one of the deadliest in the West African country's recent memory, was on one of the main east-west arteries near the town of Kaffrine, about 220 kilometres (137 miles) southeast of the capital Dakar. Sall said on […]
The Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula is expected to release the report of last week’s collision in which 20 people were killed in Pongola in the uPhongolo Municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal. A truck and bakkie collided on the N2 in the Godlwayo area. Eighteen children were among the dead. Earlier this week, the truck driver, Sibusiso Siyaya, appeared in the Pongola Magistrates’ Court. He is facing 20 charges of culpable homicide. Mbalula […]
It was a sad day for the drag racing community yesterday after one of the participants at yesterday's Motor Sport South Africa Drag Racing event at Killarney International Raceway, Dr Shaheed Mugjenkar passed away after his car crashed into the safety barriers. According to a statement by Killarney International Raceway, he lost control off his Opel Kadett after the finish line, the car veered across the drag strip and rolled […]
Authorities in Egypt have ordered the arrest of eight people in connection with a train collision in the city of Sohag that killed 18 people last week, the prosecutor’s office said on Monday. “The prosecutor general ordered that the two drivers… their two assistants, the guard of a traffic control tower, the head of traffic control in Assiut and two other guards … be remanded in custody,” a statement from […]
Searchers combing the area where a Ukrainian military aircraft crashed found two more bodies Saturday, bringing the death toll to 26. One person survived. The plane, a twin-turboprop Antonov-26 belonging to the Ukrainian air force, was carrying a crew of seven and 20 cadets of a military aviation school when it crashed and burst into flames Friday night while coming in for landing at the airport in Chuhuiv, about 400 […]
At least 11 people were killed and 14 others were injured this morning when a bus and a truck collided on the Badplaas Road outside Machadodorp in Mpumalanga. ER24’s Russel Meiring says the vehicles were severely damaged in the crash. "Upon closer inspection, paramedics found several passengers trapped in a vehicle, while numerous more were found walking around on the scene. Several patients were also found lying trapped beneath the […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
