TUESDAY, 12.30PM
Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s spokesman, Thami Nthentheni, may face culpable homicide and drunken driving charges after a woman died of burns and three others were critically injured in a highway road accident.
Nthentheni’s car, a BMW, appears to have struck a Volkswagen Passat in Midrand, between Johannesburg and Pretoria, on Monday night. The Vokswagen left the road and overturned, bursting into flames, with the passengers still trapped inside until emergency personnel could arrive and free them. Nthentheni has been released on bail pending a court appearance on January 5.
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