Struggle stalwart and ANC Veterans League member, Kedibone Mogotsi, has described the rising death toll of learners in Mondays crash as traumatic.
She says hearing of the rise in the death toll was deeply painful.
Mogotsi, who is also a former speaker of the Emfuleni and Sedibeng Municipalities, is among the mourners at Fridays memorial service for the 14 learners who died.