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Eastern Cape bus driver back in Cape Town court for culpable homicide


 Sentencing proceedings against Eastern Cape bus driver, Sisa Nonama, have been postponed to the end of January in the Cape Town regional court.

He was initially charged with 23 counts of murder but this was changed to culpable homicide following a plea agreement with the state.

Charges against Nonama's brother, Malinga who owns the bus company, were provisionally withdrawn.

The case is a sequel to a horror bus accident in the Hex River Valley Pass in May 2010 in which 23 people were killed.

In his plea agreement, Sisa admitted that he had been speeding and unable to control the overladen bus on a wet and slippery road.