Four Eastern Cape departments were this week under the spotlight after an overcrowded scholar transport bus was involved in an accident that claimed the lives of four pupils.
The department of transport has allegedly failed to do routine checks on vehicles transporting pupils as there are reports that the accident was caused by the brakes of the bus failing.
The department of education responsible for supplying the department of transport with the list of pupils in need of transport has failed many pupils in the area as they are either forced to walk long distances to school or overload the transport use by those approved, as it was allegedly the case with the Ngeqeleni accident.
Also, the body of the pupil who died on the scene spent more than three hours before the mortuary van arrived to fetch it. Parents and relatives used private vehicles to transport the injured pupils to Canzibe Hospital.
Lack of oversight blamed for scholar transport accident
The department of transport has allegedly failed to do routine checks on vehicles transporting pupils as there are reports that the accident was caused by the brakes of the bus failing.
The department of education responsible for supplying the department of transport with the list of pupils in need of transport has failed many pupils in the area as they are either forced to walk long distances to school or overload the transport use by those approved, as it was allegedly the case with the Ngeqeleni accident.
Also, the body of the pupil who died on the scene spent more than three hours before the mortuary van arrived to fetch it. Parents and relatives used private vehicles to transport the injured pupils to Canzibe Hospital.
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