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Final recommendations about the Rheenendal bus tragedy will be made to the Director of Public Prosecutions later this year after the inquest into the accident was concluded on Friday.
The accident on August 24, 2011 claimed the lives of 14 school children and the driver Tiaan Colin Payle, 65, when the African Express Tata school bus they were traveling on plunged into the Kasadrift River about 20km outside Knysna.
The pupils died when the 32-seater bus - in which 56 children were apparently crammed - crashed while transporting them to the Rheenendal Primary School.
Magistrate Derek Torlage said during proceedings at the Knysna Magistrate's Court on Thursday that the various parties' legal representatives - including the victims' parents, the bus company and the Western Cape Education and Transport departments - would have to present their heads of argument to him by then end of July.
He added that after considering their arguments, he would make his final recommendations on August 29.
"I thank you all for your patience and I appreciate the way in which this inquest was conducted," Torlage said.
