The bakkie involved in a truck smash that left six Eastern Cape schoolchildren dead and others injured on Tuesday was not a contracted scholar transportation vehicle. This was revealed by provincial transport spokesperson Unathi Binqose on Thursday. DispatchLIVE (http://www.dispatchlive.co.za) reported this week that the children roughly 14 to 17 years old and pupils at Ndamase Senior Secondary School in Ngqeleni outside Mthatha had been on their way home at about 3pm when tragedy struck.