45 ZCC members have died after the bus they were travelling in veered off the road, plunged off a bridge, and caught fire on the Mmamatlakala mountain pass between Mokopane and Marken.

The bus was travelling from Botswana to St Engenas ZCC in Moria.

An eight-year-old girl, the only survivor, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga went to the crash site and expressed her sadness on the bus crash.

“A bus that was pulling a trailer went over the bridge down into the rocky river and it had about 45 occupants only one eight-year-old girl survived she was transported to the hospital a lady was airlifted and could not make it these were the people that were travelling from Gaborone Botswana to the church Moria.”