Muzi Mthethwa Letter to editor: When trust becomes a risk — the silent burden carried by parents who use scholar transport 2 min 0 29 January 2026
ROAD SAFETY Nelson Mandela Bay metro police arrest taxi driver transporting 40 passengers — most of them schoolchildren 4 min 6 By Estelle Ellis and Kyran Blaauw
EDUCATION STRUGGLE Pupils describe the long walk to school, amid fight for scholar transport in rural Eastern Cape 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
SHUTDOWN Non-payment of scholar transport fees triggers huge taxi strike in Eastern Cape 5 min 5 By Estelle Ellis
LEARNING CURVE KZN Education Department ‘seeks creative solutions’ as budget cut affects training, nutrition and transport 4 min 1 By Nkululeko Ndlovu
TRANSPORT WARS As the school run begins, Eastern Cape scholar transport marred by taxi owners intimidating private operators 4 min 8 By Estelle Ellis
LEARNERS’ RIGHTS Eastern Cape government receives strict orders to provide scholar transport as excuses run out of road 5 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
‘VIOLATION OF RIGHTS’ Eastern Cape considers excluding more learners from scholar transport service, court told 5 min 3 By Estelle Ellis
LEARNER SAFETY Fochville horror crash highlights need for urgent, comprehensive scholar transport reform 5 min 3 By Michelle Banda
REFLECTION Lessons from the distressing ordeal of schoolboy Lifalethu Mbasana 5 min 10 By Velani Ludidi
ANSWERED PRAYERS Grade 6 learner back at school – and on the bus after he was made to get off and make his own way home 4 min 9 By Suné Payne
ANSWERED PRAYERS Cape Town mother describes harrowing wait for son (11) who went missing after being kicked off bus 4 min 21 By Suné Payne and Siyabonga Goni
SCHOLAR TRANSPORT TRAGEDY Grieving Gauteng family calls for swift probe into Fochville horror crash that killed 11 pupils 2 min 0 By Michelle Banda
SCHOLAR TRANSPORT TRAGEDY Gauteng police open culpable homicide case after 12 pupils killed in horror Fochville crash 2 min 0 By Michelle Banda
BROKEN PROMISES Through thick bush, up hills and across rivers – Eastern Cape learners’ long trek to school 12 min 3 By Estelle Ellis
SMASH TRAGEDY Sixth child dies six weeks after horrific Mitchells Plain scholar transport crash 3 min 0 By Velani Ludidi
ROAD TRAGEDY Scholar transport horror smash driver to seek bail as grief and anger envelop Cape Town community 3 min 2 By Velani Ludidi
