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EDITORIAL | Government needs to get back on track with scholar transport

Dailydispatch · · 461 words · By Daily Dispatch Dispatch
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9 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“SA’s constitution places a positive duty on the state to respect, protect, promote and fulfill the rights of vulnerable groups, especially children.”
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The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, explicitly states that the state must respect, protect, promote and fulfil the rights in the Bill of Rights.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1. This Bill of Rights is a cornerstone of democracy in South Africa. It enshrines the rights of all people in our country and affirms the democratic values of human dignity, equality and freedom. 2. …
https://www.gov.za/documents/constitution/chapter-2-bill-rig…
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web search NEUTRAL — ACT To introduce a new Constitution for the Republic of South Africa and to provide for matters incidental thereto.
https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/constitution/saconsti…
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web search NEUTRAL — The state must respect, protect, promote and fulfil the rights in the Bill of Rights. The rights in the Bill of Rights are subject to the limitations contained or referred to in section 36, or elsewhe…
https://www.saflii.org/za/legis/num_act/cotrosa1996423/
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“These include the rights to basic nutrition, shelter, and healthcare.”
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Section 28(1)(c) of the South African Constitution explicitly grants every child the right to basic nutrition, shelter, basic health care services and social services.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1. This Bill of Rights is a cornerstone of democracy in South Africa.b. to family care or parental care, or to appropriate alternative care when removed from the family environment; c. to basic nutrit…
https://www.gov.za/documents/constitution/chapter-2-bill-rig…
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web search NEUTRAL — How ICLEI Africa uses a rights based food systems approach to address food inequities.We do this through supporting local and regional governments with the right tools for inclusive governance that pr…
https://africa.iclei.org/food-at-the-center-of-human-life-an…
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web search NEUTRAL — Section 28(1)(c) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act (Act 108 of 1996) states that "every child has a right to basic nutrition, shelter, basic health care services and social servi…
https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S003…
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“It also includes what the courts have described as the “immediately realisable” right to a basic education.”
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Multiple sources, including UNHCR and legal analysis, confirm that South African courts have affirmed the right to basic education as an 'immediately realisable' right that cannot depend on available resources.
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web search NEUTRAL — South African Constitutional Court confirms that the right to basic education encompasses access to final exams.
https://www.right-to-education.org/blog/south-african-consti…
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web search NEUTRAL — This right is in South Africa’s Bill of Rights and has been affirmed by the South African courts.Access to basic education is an immediately realisable right and cannot be dependent on government reso…
https://help.unhcr.org/southafrica/get-help/education/
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web search NEUTRAL — 37 In South Africa, while the right to education has to be progressively realised, the right to basic education is immediately realisable without any limitations due to the available resources or legi…
https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S207…
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“In December 2024, the high court in Makhanda handed down the definitive judgment on scholar transport which ruled that failure to provide scholar transport to all pupils “in the Eastern Cape who qualify” was unconstitutional.”
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Multiple news reports confirm a December 2024 ruling by the Makhanda High Court stating that the failure to provide scholar transport to qualifying pupils in the Eastern Cape was unconstitutional.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Makhanda High Court ruling this week, declaring the Eastern Cape Department of Transport’s failure to provide scholar transport unlawful and unconstitutional, is a victory for the 40,000 learners—…
https://ec.da.org.za/2024/12/no-more-excuses-department-must…
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web search NEUTRAL — He also referred to a December 2024 ruling by the Makhanda high court, which found that the departments of transport and education had acted unconstitutionally by failing to provide scholar transport …
https://www.dailydispatch.co.za/news/2026-01-26-pupils-left-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Makhanda High Court ruled that the provincial Education Department's failure to provide scholar transport to all learners in the province is.
https://www.algoafm.co.za/local/victory-for-learners-as-cour…
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“the department said that while it recognised that not having enough funding was not a defence to an immediately realisable right, it was battling to pay for scholar transport for over one-third of the 115,000 children that qualified.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant results about a university in Connecticut and general Wikipedia entries about the Eastern Cape; no evidence regarding the department's specific funding admission for 115,000 children was found.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Eastern Cape (Afrikaans: Oos-Kaap [ˈuəs.kɑːp]; Xhosa: eMpuma-Kapa; Khoekhoe: Aiǂoas!hub) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, and its largest city is Gqeberha (form…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Cape
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Eastern Cape region of South Africa experienced a severe multi-year drought from 2015 through early 2020. The drought was one of the worst in the region's history and led the South African governm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Cape_drought
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sunrisers Eastern Cape is a South African professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team that competes in the SA20 tournament. The team is based in Gqeberha, and was formed in 2022. The team's home-grou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrisers_Eastern_Cape
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“The collapse in scholar transport has happened every year for more than a decade in this province”
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The provided evidence contains general information about the Eastern Cape and a mention of learners braving long distances, but does not provide evidence that the transport system has 'collapsed every year for more than a decade'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexandria is a small farming town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and is situated 100 km north-east of Gqeberha on the R72 road to Bushman's River Mouth, Kenton-on-Sea and Port Alfred. Alexandria…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Eastern_Cape
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cape Coloureds (Afrikaans: Kaapse Kleurlinge) are a South African group of Coloureds who are from the Cape region in South Africa which consists of the Western Cape, Northern Cape and the Eastern Cape…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coloureds
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Queenstown, officially Komani, is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly halfway between the smaller towns of Cathcart and Sterkstroom on the N6 national route. The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenstown,_South_Africa
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“at the beginning of this financial year, the department of transport once again budgeted for a steep deficit and admitted it did not have the funds to transport 40,000 qualifying pupils”
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The search results provided for this claim are completely irrelevant, discussing software crashes (OneNote/OneDrive) rather than the Eastern Cape Department of Transport budget.
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 4, 2014 · I had OneNote running successfully under Yosemite until now. For some reason it started to crash on start "Microsoft OneNote quit unexpectedly". I have tried to delete files/directories …
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web search NEUTRAL — May 3, 2023 · Please start creating your questions related to these products on Microsoft Q&A... .. We’re retiring the Xbox forums. It is no longer possible to create questions in the Gaming and Xbox …
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web search NEUTRAL — Step 3: Then when you start into the Windows installation interface, you can see that there is an option called Repair your computer, then click on it to fix the interface problem. Step 4: Then naviga…
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/my-oth…
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“scholar transport operators have withdrawn their services due to non-payment, going back months.”
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The search results provided are irrelevant, discussing 'Google Scholar' and 'RoadScholar' rather than scholar transport operators in South Africa.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alternatives to Google Scholar: What research tool do you use to find scholarship in the humanities? Recently I've been trying to de-Google. I think I've gotten rid of everything but I can't shake off…
https://www.reddit.com/r/academia/comments/1c8sqri/alternati…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Ultimate Scholar Support Build Here is a little guide for how I've been running my Scholar. In a fight you should be activating your skill as much as possible and switching from buffing your team …
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nightreign/comments/1pihd0q/the_ult…
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web search NEUTRAL — The non-profit Road Scholar organization, which used to be called Elder Hostel, offers a WIDE variety of small-group trips for travelers who are 50+. As their original name implies, they started with …
https://www.reddit.com/r/retirement/comments/18cc1if/has_any…
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“More than 12,000 children in BCM alone did not make it to school last week”
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No evidence was found after searching for this specific claim regarding 12,000 children in BCM.
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