Brakpan Bus Company confirms strike
Brakpan Bus Company responded to the African Reporter's queries after hundreds of children from Kwatsaduza were left stranded at bus stops and parents were complaining on Monday afternoon.
“The bus drivers downed tools on Monday morning just after their morning shifts”, says marketing officer from the company Luvuyo Solomon.
Solomon says unfortunately the company is not in a position to say when the strike will end and adds the assumption is that all the workers that are members of the union are on strike.
Solomon elaborates that all the areas and routes covered by the company are affected by this strike action.
According to Solomon currently there are no alternatives for customers but the company shall inform the passengers of any developments.
Parent Ntombi Ntshingila, who lives in Tsakane, says her three children were stranded on Monday afternoon when the buses did not fetch her children.
She says the Brakpan bus has failed them because they fetched the children in the morning yet did not bother to inform them.
Ntshingila says what worries her is the school did not even try to organise alternative transport as her children had to walk from Brakpan to Tsakane.
She says she has continuously called the bus company on Monday yet did not receive answers.
