{"id":34790,"date":"2026-05-18T19:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34790"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:41:08","slug":"overloaded-bus-from-malawi-intercepted-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/overloaded-bus-from-malawi-intercepted-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Overloaded bus from Malawi intercepted in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Limpopo province traffic officers in South Africa (SA) have intercepted an overloaded bus on the National route (N1) outside Polokwane.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The bus, travelling from Malawi to Johannesburg has a carrying capacity of 70 passengers but 90 were on board.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Traffic authorities also say a passenger list has recorded 25 passengers. The bus driver has fled on foot, but an assistant driver is at the scene.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Transport Department spokesperson Matome Taueatsoala says that police and immigration officers are processing the passengers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34801,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34790","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The bus driver has fled on foot, but an assistant driver is at the scene.","published_date":"","news_description":"The bus driver has fled on foot, but an assistant driver is at the scene.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34802,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34790\/revisions\/34802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}