Eastern Cape government taken to court over Scholar Transport scheme.
The non-profit organisation, Khula Development Project in the Eastern Cape says it has resorted to taking the provincial government to court over problems pertaining to the Scholar Transport Programme in the province.
Since schools reopened, learners have had to walk or find alternative transport to school because of the unavailability of school transport. The provincial transport department says this is due to a lack of funding.Khula Development Project, which mainly focuses on children’s rights, believes many learners in the province are still struggling with scholar transport and consequently losing out on school time due to the challenges in the programme.
“The only thing we have decided to do was to rather approach a court of law, so we have since approached a law firm to take the relevant law firm to court, we don’t have time to play because we are talking about kids who have never been to school. In the Amathole West, there are kids who have not been to school, they did not even write their examinations for term 1,” says Petros Majola, Director of the Khula Development Project.
However, the Provincial Government maintains that issues relating to the Scholar Transport Programme have been resolved. “From where we are seated now that matter is closed. There was a discussion from the MEC for Transport and service providers last week just to tighten up the issues of procurement enquiries and also the issues of management of the scholar transport from a government point of view and a service provider’s point of view,” says Eastern Cape Education MEC Fundile Gade.
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