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Golden Arrow Bus Service has come under fire, after one of its drivers refused a schoolboy entry to the vehicle.

This resulted in an hours-long, frantic search for the 11-year-old, Grade 5 pupil.

It’s believed he’d lost his bus ticket to travel from school in Simonstown to Makhaza.

Golden Arrow spokesperson, Bronwen Dyke-Beyer, says the driver has, since, been suspended for failing to follow protocol.

The question is, though, how – in a climate of child abductions – is this allowed to happen?


The mother of the pupil left by a Golden Arrow Bus driver in Simonstown says she’s grateful that her son is alive.

Lifalethu Mbasana had to walk for several kilometers from the ocean suburb to Mitchell Plain.

While walking, he says a good Samaritan arrived and accompanied him to the Harare informal settlement in Khayelitsha..

The learner had been left destitute when the bus driver refused to take him on board after he’d lost his bus ticket.

Arthur Pose reports…