Midrand Learner Transport Association urge parents to remain vigilant of fake transporters
Parents can verify the authenticity of their childrens transport operator by asking for a copy of a drivers licence, a contract from an association they affiliated to and a sticker of the association.

As the 2025 academic year is about to commence, many parents will jump at any low-cost scholar transport operator available to ferry their children.
However, the Midrand Learner Transport Association (MLTA) local branch urges parents to be alert of bogus scholar transport operators, which often offer cheaper services.
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Association chairperson Thabo Seletisha said, “Please be careful when you are looking at transport for your child. There are a lot of people who take chances, most of whom are not affiliated with the association, saying they are transporting children to school. The aim for them is to get quick cash and run. We would like to urge parents to verify the car and the driver who will transport their children are registered to MLTA or other associations.”
He said for parents to verify the authenticity of a transport operator, they needed to ask for a copy of the driver’s licence, the contract from the association the operator was affiliated with and a sticker of the association. Seletisha added if the car did not have a sticker displayed, it meant that the operator was not registered with Gauteng Education Transport Services and the transport department.
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Seletisha said as far as he was concerned, there were only four learner transport associations operating in Thembisa and Midrand. These were MLTA, Ratanang Transport Association, Northen Education Transport Children Organisation (Netco) and Ekurhuleni Northern Scholar Transport Association (Ensta).
Last year, a Grade R learner from a local primary school went missing after a bogus scholar transport operator failed to collect the child.
In the article, Bogus scholar transport results in Grade R learner’s 5-hour disappearance, [Week ending 9 February 2024], the mother of the 5-year-old boy said she was terrified of what might have happened to her son.
The woman, who requested to be identified only as Chriselda said at the time, the alleged bogus scholar transport was nowhere to be found during the search.
The learner was found 4.5km away from the school at a shopping complex by a parent who saw the story on the school’s formal communication channel.
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