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PE taxi driver to plead guilty on double culpable homicide


A Port Elizabeth taxi driver accused of causing a fatal accident and killing two young women is expected to plead guilty in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Court next month.

The 28-year-old, Yibanathi Ndike, appeared briefly in court on Thursday.

He is alleged to have jumped a red robot in Kempston Road in January this year, before colliding with a light motor vehicle and then fleeing the scene.

Ndike later turned himself in.

The victims, 19-year-old Micayla Victor and 21-year-old Celine De Ridder, who both worked in the Atlas security control room and were on their way to work, died at the scene.

A third passenger in the car was injured and taken to a hospital.

Ndike faces two charges of culpable homicide and of reckless and negligent driving.

His case was remanded to the fifth of December and he remains out on warning.

Picture: Family members who showed up in support of the victims.