NW warns defiant scholar transport operators

The Department of Community Safety and Transport in the North West Province has issued a stern warning to over 500 scholar transport operators who did not pitch for a mandatory inspection last week.

The inspection was a response to the findings by the Human Rights Commission, which found that a number of North West's scholar transport buses were unroadworthy.

The department says absent operators run the risk of being removed from the roads and as a last resort, having their contracts terminated, as there's no longer a room for excuses.

SABC News Reporter Tebogo Phakedi and Video Journalist Sello Mogopa compiled this report.

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