The Eastern Cape department of transport and education are being taken to court for failing to provide scholar transport for thousands of children.
They are demanding the departments provide scholar transport for their learners and thousands more across the province. They also want catch-up support for those learners who missed school because they had no transport. "Learners from three villages have to walk more than 5km through bushes, streams and a river to get to school. This is unsafe."
In 2022 and 2023, the school applied for learner transport through the South African School Administration and Management System, which manages learners' applications, but received no response. The papers cite Premier Oscar Mabuyane saying the province can only afford to transport 90,000 learners for 2024. This would leave 50,000 learners without transport, according to the founding affidavit of Petros Majola, Khula Community Development director. He said systemic failures included recurring non-payment of transport service providers.
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