Angie Motshekga must deliver on promise to get funds for scholar transport
Education group Equal Education are demanding that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga deliver on her promise to secure funds for scholar transport in all nine provinces. On Friday, the group picketed outside the offices of the Department of Basic Education in Pretoria, calling for funds to be made available speedily for scholar transport. A national scholar transport policy was introduced in 2015, but Equal Education says little action has been thrust behind it. This comes after Motshekga committed herself to putting in place a system of grants to ring fence funds intended for scholar transport, following a spate of horrific accidents involving pupils in May. Equal Education national organiser Luyolo Mazwembe said Motshekga had promised to engage the Treasury on providing funds for scholars who trekked long distances to school under dangerous circumstances. "Learners face the dangers of being kidnapped, run over by cars and raped on their way to school," Mazwembe said. The gro...
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