BY PHEMELO MOHUTSIWA
MAPHOITSILE pupils refused to go to school using Phumatra buses after they alleged that accused the bus company of not taking them serious.

According to South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) Regional Secretary, Mika Moeti said the pupils complained about overcrowding, buses do not reach other destinations and that causes them to walk distance to board buses.

“We were engaged in a peaceful march with the Maphoitsile pupils because there were other issues that needed to be ironed out.

“We once wrote a letter of demand to Phumatra bus company, but they promised to look into the matter until now. Pupils have to go to Pampierstad to fill up their bus coupon. They demanded that the motor vehicle tickets be stationed at Maphoitsile,” Moeti said.

Phumatra bus company Depot Manager, Thabo Hlahla said they noted down the grievances and will bring report back on Friday.

“We have received the pupils’ grievances and we will engage with them on Friday after a meeting with our management.

“Some of the pupils said our buses are wrecks, but we bought new buses recently, so we suspect this was involving poor service delivery issue which we got nothing to do with,” he said.
-TDN
Follow us on Twitter@Taung_DailyNews