S. A: FOUR PEOPLE HAVE DIED AFTER A CAR WAS SWEPT AWAY AT AN OVERFLOWING BRIDGE IN THE MAKOTOPONG RIVER NEAR SEBAYENG.(PHOTO).
Four people have died after a car was swept away at an overflowing bridge in the Makotopong River near Sebayeng. Police recovered the bodies after a blue Renault Kwid carrying five occupants was pulled into the river during heavy water flow on Sunday morning, 8 March 2026. One passenger escaped from the vehicle and alerted police and emergency services. Police say the car was travelling along the Madiga–Makotopong gravel road when it overturned at the flooded bridge and was dragged into the river. The Provincial Search and Rescue team recovered the first body on Sunday. The victim was identified as Lebapa Petrus Mochitele, 27, from Madiga Village. EMS personnel declared him dead at the scene. Search operations resumed on Monday with the SAPS Water Wing Unit, EMS Search and Rescue, the Fire and Rescue Department, and an EMS helicopter. Teams located the submerged vehicle and recovered three more bodies. The victims were identified as Seobi Dikgale, 33, Betty Makokoane, 22, and Shel...
49 year old Russell Crow has had a brief meeting with Pope Francis concerning his latest film Noah and at the end,the Pope gave him his blessings.Russell said to his audience ''The holy father showed a great level of consistency with the things he's been saying and things he's been doing,it was an incredible privilege to be invited.Given the amount of controversy surrounding this film,and has been surrounding it for a year now,the fact we were invited to the Vatican was extremely kind''.Crow upcoming Biblical film Noah originally reached out to the Pope on twitter,but both of his scheduled meetings with the Pope in the past week were called of at the last minute but atlast he met with Russell later in one of the evenings.More pictures below. 
catholics with blessing from the pope.
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