{"id":210646,"date":"2025-10-21T07:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-dnc-bus-accident-death-toll-rises-to-44-as-zimbabwe-and-malawi-cover-repatriation-medical-costs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:59:32","slug":"zimbabwe-dnc-bus-accident-death-toll-rises-to-44-as-zimbabwe-and-malawi-cover-repatriation-medical-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-dnc-bus-accident-death-toll-rises-to-44-as-zimbabwe-and-malawi-cover-repatriation-medical-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: DNC Bus Accident &#8211; Death Toll Rises to 44 As Zimbabwe and Malawi Cover Repatriation, Medical Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The governments of Zimbabwe and Malawi have pledged to cover all repatriation and medical expenses for victims of the DNC Coaches bus accident that claimed 44 lives along South Africa&#8217;s N1 highway near Louis Trichardt, Limpopo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The 44th victim succumbed to injuries while receiving treatment in hospital, raising the death toll from the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s diplomat Shepherd Gwenzi and Malawi&#8217;s High Commissioner to South Africa Stella Ndau made the announcement during a meeting with Limpopo provincial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510210061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governments of Zimbabwe and Malawi have pledged to cover all repatriation and medical expenses for victims of the DNC Coaches bus accident that claimed 44 lives along South Africa&#8217;s N1 highway near Louis Trichardt, Limpopo. The 44th victim succumbed to injuries while receiving treatment in hospital, raising the death toll from the crash. Zimbabwe&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[7264,258,256,3011,11509,7514,6974,52630,5028,7417,257,8355,8688,254,11260,4686,421],"class_list":["post-210646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bus","tag-costs","tag-cover","tag-death","tag-dnc","tag-malawi","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-repatriation","tag-rises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-toll","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}