On the morning of August 23rd 2011, after an evening of heavy rain, a bus was taking the school children of Rheenendal, near Knysna, to the local school. After picking up a young girl the bus driver was unable to make a hill start due to faulty brakes and the bus rolled back into what is usually small stream tha was now swollen from the rains of the night before. Tragically the driver and some 13 or so of the children died, and it would have surely been more if it had not been for the quick action of a local diver passing at that moment. Liza took some moving photographs of the pain and suffering felt within the community which made front page of the Cape Town based papers over the next few days as well as other national papers. I know that these images played a role in the out pooring off support from both local Garden Route communities as well as organizations such as the Gift of the Givers. See some of those moving images here.

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