FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 386
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER:
03/08/2012
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 20/2012)
Mr Z Mlenzana (COPE-EC) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:
Whether the school transport programme is fully functional in the Mt Frere
District in the Eastern Cape; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant
details ? CW491E
REPLY:
The Provincial Department of Education through the Department of Transport
is responsible for scholar transport and in terms of their reports, the
learner transport programme is fully functional in the Mt Frere District.
A total of 2 600 learners in 22 schools covering 54 routes are currently
transported.