Lack of finance sees EC pupils lose out on transport programme

A staggering 52,000 pupils who successfully applied for the government-funded scholar transport programme this year are still forced to walk long distances to get to their schools as the provincial department of transport does not have enough money to transport them. In a startling revelation, provincial transport spokesperson Unathi Binqose said while the department was transporting about 103,000 pupils to schools across the Eastern Cape as part of the scholar transport programme, the total ...