The KwaZulu-Natal transport department has started paying the victims of a fitness test in which eight people died and several more were hospitalised, the Witness newspaper reported on Tuesday.
According to the report the department paid R10,000 on February 26 to 18 people injured or hospitalised following their participation in a 4km run at Pietermaritzburg's Harry Gwala stadium in December 2012.
This formed part of a fitness test for Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI) job applicants.
More than 40,000 people qualified to apply for 90 advertised RTI trainee posts.
Of these, 20,000 applicants attended a fitness test on December 27 and a similar number on December 28.
Department head Sbu Gumbi was quoted as saying the payments "were straightforward payments with no legal issues".
Gumbi told the newspaper that actuaries would visit the families of the dead to determine how much they would receive.
'RTI pays fitness test victims'
The KwaZulu-Natal transport department has started paying the victims of a fitness test in which eight people died and several more were hospitalised, the Witness newspaper reported on Tuesday.
According to the report the department paid R10,000 on February 26 to 18 people injured or hospitalised following their participation in a 4km run at Pietermaritzburg's Harry Gwala stadium in December 2012.
This formed part of a fitness test for Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI) job applicants.
More than 40,000 people qualified to apply for 90 advertised RTI trainee posts.
Of these, 20,000 applicants attended a fitness test on December 27 and a similar number on December 28.
Department head Sbu Gumbi was quoted as saying the payments "were straightforward payments with no legal issues".
Gumbi told the newspaper that actuaries would visit the families of the dead to determine how much they would receive.
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