Take the wheel: Bus driver suspended after letting pupil drive

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The incident, which involved a pupil from Moshesh Agricultural Senior Secondary School, near Matatiele in the Eastern Cape, occurred last week as the bus was transporting pupils home after school.

Paul AshA bus driver in Matatiele has been suspended after he allowed a school pupil to take the wheel.A bus driver has been suspended — and the company he worked for has lost its government transport contract — after he let a Grade 10 pupil drive the bus while he stood behind her and allegedly drank a beer.Moshesh Agricultural Senior Secondary School, near Matatiele in the Eastern Cape, occurred last week as the bus was transporting pupils home after school.

Another pupil filmed the unidentified Grade 10 pupil driving the bus, and then posted the video on social media, where it went viral. In the video, the driver can be seen standing alongside the pupil and drinking what looks like a beer. “It is very clear the bus was being driven by the pupil,” said Eastern Cape education department spokesman Monwabisi Mbangeni.Mbangeni said the department on Monday cancelled its contract with the operator, Mopheme Transport Cooperative, which supplies transport to schools in the district.sourcing alternative transport providers to bus the pupils to and from their schools.

“This agricultural school also boasts a rich history as most local activists and freedom fighters were homed here during the dark apartheid days,” the website says.

 

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