Complaints about Diepsloot Transport Learners Association
DIEPSLOOT - Parents are clashing with Diepsloot Transport Learners Association in the populous township over the late arrival of their children at school.
This is in direct violation of what the association promised parents in November last year when they launched the transport service at Diepsloot Youth Centre.
The association promised to provide an excellent children’s transport system for a monthly fee of R250 during a public meeting which was attended by the Fourways Review news team. Five months down the line, a different tale is now emerging from the Johannesburg North township.
An executive member of the association, Christina Madigoe, is being accused of being late when dropping children at school. Madigoe, who is ironically tasked with the responsibility of enforcing the association’s commitments to parents, is at the centre of the furore.
“She arrives late to pick up my child and my boy gets punished every day for being late,” fumed one parent who declined to be identified.
The mother also complained that Madigoe was using a pick-up truck fitted with benches which, she said, was completely at variance with the luxury omnibuses which were paraded for parents to see during the launch of the association.
“This woman is using a truck to take our children to school yet they promised us comfortable taxis and this is unfair,” said the single mother.
Another parent who also preferred anonymity to protect her daughter said she was changing her child’s transport next month. “I am looking for new transport outside this association next month. She [Madigoe] brings my child after 4pm after picking her up at 1.30pm from Basa Primary School,” she said.
In response, Madigoe maintained that parents who were not happy with her services were at liberty to find someone else. She has already refunded a number of parents and withdrawn her services.
Madigoe told this paper that she was only using a truck as a temporary measure after her omnibus broke down.
A regional leader of the association, Bran Govender expressed shock over the alleged treatment of parents and children by Madigoe. “She is supposed to adhere to everything that we represented in that meeting and that is not tolerated,” said Govender, adding that the regional office of the association would handle the matter.
“Her conduct is defaming our name.”
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