GOVERNMENT’S SHOCKING “SOLUTION” FOR STUDENTS: A FEW BIKES AS THE SYSTEM CRUMBLES.
While children face a crisis of crumbling infrastructure and dangerous commutes, the Department of Roads and Transport has made a jaw-dropping “intervention.” They handed out 50 BICYCLES to Lethulwazi Comprehensive Secondary School. That’s their grand plan.
MEC Kedibone Diale-Tlabela stood before students and declared this the answer. “What we are more interested in is that there is mobility of these learners,” she said, promoting the “Shova Kalula” program. But this isn’t mobility—it’s a DISTRACTION. A photo-op with bicycles while students are forced to travel “far and wide” on unsafe roads the department itself FAILS to maintain.
Why does this matter? Because it reveals a brutal pattern. Instead of fixing broken transport systems or ensuring safe, reliable scholar transport, they offer a token gesture. They get a positive headline while abandoning a generation. Who benefits? The politicians who get to smile for the camera. Who stays silent? The officials who allow this dangerous farce to continue.
They are giving children a bicycle and telling them to pedal past the wreckage of their own failed leadership.
One final, disturbing question remains: Is this a charity project, or a confession that they have given up on providing anything real?
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
