A Class full of eager and anxious learner licence test writers were stood up by an Mdantsane traffic officer in charge of the test.
Some travelled in the early hours of the morning from Mthatha for their 9am appointment at the Mdantsane traffic department on Monday.
Yola Siwendu, of Mthatha said: “This is really an inconvenience as we changed our work schedules to make this appointment. Now we have to arrange another day to write again.”
She made the point that had she been the one who was late, the examiner would not have allowed her to write or given her a refund.
“I woke up at 5am because I didn't want to miss this appointment. I was very disappointed to find out that there was no examiner”
She said the facility was also filthy.
Toilets were dirty, papers and rubbish lay on the floor.
“I could see that the disappointment in the faces of the teenagers who were there to write. They were demotivated. I was too,” she said.
“They said they would call to arrange another date for us, but they haven’t. I am the one who keeps calling them with no response.”
Phumla Mpofu, of NU10, said what irritated her most was that the traffic department did not bother to call them to postpone prior to the officer’s no-show.
“Mdantsane is a big township, how can they only have one examiner? Now we don’t have clarity as to when we will be scheduled to write our learners.”
Buffalo City Metro spokeswoman Bathandwa Diamond said: “The city would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused by the matter that resulted in the test not being written on the day.”
She said they had communicated with all the applicants and reached an agreement to write the test tomorrow at 9am.
“For now, we will monitor the situation and deploy more examiners when the need arises.”
She did not say why the officer did not pitch.
Learners left in lurch
Some travelled in the early hours of the morning from Mthatha for their 9am appointment at the Mdantsane traffic department on Monday.
Yola Siwendu, of Mthatha said: “This is really an inconvenience as we changed our work schedules to make this appointment. Now we have to arrange another day to write again.”
She made the point that had she been the one who was late, the examiner would not have allowed her to write or given her a refund.
“I woke up at 5am because I didn't want to miss this appointment. I was very disappointed to find out that there was no examiner”
She said the facility was also filthy.
Toilets were dirty, papers and rubbish lay on the floor.
“I could see that the disappointment in the faces of the teenagers who were there to write. They were demotivated. I was too,” she said.
“They said they would call to arrange another date for us, but they haven’t. I am the one who keeps calling them with no response.”
Phumla Mpofu, of NU10, said what irritated her most was that the traffic department did not bother to call them to postpone prior to the officer’s no-show.
“Mdantsane is a big township, how can they only have one examiner? Now we don’t have clarity as to when we will be scheduled to write our learners.”
Buffalo City Metro spokeswoman Bathandwa Diamond said: “The city would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused by the matter that resulted in the test not being written on the day.”
She said they had communicated with all the applicants and reached an agreement to write the test tomorrow at 9am.
“For now, we will monitor the situation and deploy more examiners when the need arises.”
She did not say why the officer did not pitch.
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