The World - News from July 2, 1989
A bus filled with workers ran off a road and rolled down a 900-foot slope in South Africa, killing about 50 people and injuring 30. The bus was returning black laborers and domestic workers to the black homeland of Transkei for the weekend when the accident occurred near Port Shepstone, 60 miles southwest of Durban in Natal province. There had been heavy rain in the region during the day, but it was not immediately known whether weather was a factor in the accident.
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