IFP demands answers over shortage of adequate pupil transport in the in uMkhanyakude District

Durban — The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in KwaZulu-Natal has called on KZN MEC for Education Mbali Frazer to provide clear time-frames on when schools in uMkhanyakude District will be provided with scholar transport.

The department, under the former MEC for Education Kwazi Mshengu, stated that 143 schools in the district were without transport.

In Harry Gwala District, a further 16 schools – including both primary and high schools – had been applying for pupils’ transport since its inception in 2012.

The response followed a parliamentary question submitted by the IFP’s KZN provincial spokesperson for Education, Thembeni Madlopha-Mthethwa, to the department.

In a response from the…

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