A driver and a school principal are to be charged with overloading a minibus taxi after 65 pupils were found crammed into the vehicle.
The video showing 48 school pupils alighting from a taxi that was stopped by traffic officers in Port Elizabeth in February was bad enough.
The vehicle was certified to carry 26 passengers, meaning it was transporting more than twice the maximum number of passengers permitted.
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