Thirteen Zimbabweans have died while 26 others were injured when a bus they were travelling in collided with a haulage truck on the N1 Highway near Hex River Pass in Western Cape, South Africa, on Saturday evening.

The Simplex Bus Company bus was travelling from Harare to Cape Town when the accident occurred some 130km before Cape Town.

There are fears that the death toll will rise as some of the 26 were seriously injured.