'GDE to clamp down on unethical private scholar transport' - Chiloane

JOHANNESBURG - The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has vowed to root out unethical practices in the private scholar transport system.

This is according to GDE MEC Matome Chiloane.

He was addressing the media on the sidelines of a joint funeral service held for 10 learners who died in a horrific scholar crash in Carletonville last month. 

The crash was a result of a bakkie ramming into a minibus taxi killing 12 people, 11 of whom were children. 

The taxi driver was also killed in the crash.

Chiloane paid tribute to the victims in front of group of over 200 mourners. 

He said the plan to improve the private scholar transport industry was in motion.

“Let’s be firm, we are going to clamp down on those private scholar transport. Yes, we’re going to have an engagement. I’m not saying all of them are not ethical, but I’m saying those that are not ethical have no space and no opportunity to carry our children to school, not Gauteng.”

Added Chiloane: “We’ve got patrollers at schools; these patrollers were going to give them an instruction to go and assess the vehicles that bring our scholars to school.”