Chairperson, in terms of the policy and the allocations provided to provinces, each province should be providing transport to all learners that live in areas beyond the radius of five kilometres. I would imagine that particularly in areas such as KwaZulu- Natal, the Eastern Cape and Limpopo, adequate scholar transport is being provided for.
However, the allocations provinces provide for that particular purpose vary from province to province. Most of the provinces provide for transport for learners through the Department of Education. However, in two of the nine provinces, it's provided for by the Department of Transport.
We are of the view, particularly with regard to issues such as those that you have raised, that everybody is caught within the network and that the Department of Transport should be the service provider so that there should be a uniform base of allocation with regard to subsidies and policy in relation to transport.
This attempt at achieving this unity has resulted in the engagement between the Department of Transport and the Department of Basic Education to ensure that a uniform policy, which will result in guidelines for the various provinces, is provided for. If there are instances where transport is not provided for where it should be, in terms of the existing policy, please draw our attention to it and we will make the appropriate intervention. Thank you very much.