{"id":238100,"date":"2026-07-04T06:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bus-carrying-migrants-for-repatriation-crashes-near-beitbridge\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T06:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:23:57","slug":"zimbabwe-bus-carrying-migrants-for-repatriation-crashes-near-beitbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bus-carrying-migrants-for-repatriation-crashes-near-beitbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Bus Carrying Migrants for Repatriation Crashes Near Beitbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">A bus transporting foreign nationals for repatriation has crashed near Beitbridge on South Africa&#8217;s border with Zimbabwe, killing the driver and injuring seven passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The accident happened on Tuesday as the bus was travelling from Durban to Musina with 65 passengers who were due to be processed before being repatriated through the Beitbridge border post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In a statement issued on Wednesday, South Africa&#8217;s Border Management Authority (BMA) said preliminary reports indicated the driver died at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030372.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>A bus transporting foreign nationals for repatriation has crashed near Beitbridge on South Africa&#8217;s border with Zimbabwe, killing the driver and injuring seven passengers. The accident happened on Tuesday as the bus was travelling from Durban to Musina with 65 passengers who were due to be processed before being repatriated through the Beitbridge border post. [&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":[258,256,2702,3011,17754,11104,6928,257,8355,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-238100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beitbridge","tag-bus","tag-carrying","tag-crashes","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-repatriation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238100","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=238100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238100\/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=238100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}