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Nine people have been killed in a 7-car pile up on the N-1 near Beaufort-West in the central Karoo.
According to the public broadcaster, the road was closed for a few hours to traffic in both directions on Sunday.
Western Cape traffic chief, Kenny Africa says 8 people were injured, one of them seriously.
The cause of the accident is not known.