Equal Education heads to Nquthu as bus service kicks off
As schools across the province open their doors to pupils for the start of the second term, KwaZulu-Natal Education and Transport officials will be making good on a promise to a dozen schools in Nquthu.
Nearly 3000 pupils there, who have had to walk for hours to get to and from school, are to benefit from a new bus service that is set to start today.
The departments were instructed to provide buses to shuttle children to and from school after Equal Education, an advocacy group, took its fight for scholar transport to the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Last year, @DBE_KZN undertook to, by 1 April, adequately plan to address need for #ScholarTransport throughout KwaZulu-Natal, and to provide buses to 12 Nquthu schools by today! We’re checking up on delivery - updates here, on Facebook, and IG. Forward to equal education for all! pic.twitter.com/e0gpwXcUvP
— Equal Education (@equal_education) April 10, 2018
KwaZulu-Natal Education confirmed yesterday that the buses would be handed over today.
"We hope that they deliver the buses to the 12 schools. We are here in Nquthu to witness that ourselves. We are going to visit the 12 schools and document the buses," Equal Education's Luyolo Mazwembe said.
Mazwembe says there are still many needy children who do not have access to scholar transport.
"At least the learners from these 12 schools will not be forced to walk to school again. This does not mean other learners should be walking to school but there will be a small portion of learners that will be bused to school," he said.
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