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The mother of the pupil left by a Golden Arrow Bus driver in Simon’s Town, Cape Town, says she’s grateful her son is alive.
Lifalethu Mbasana had to walk for several kilometres from the ocean suburb to Mitchell Plain on Tuesday evening.
While walking, he says, a good Samaritan arrived and accompanied him to the Harare informal settlement in Khayelitsha.
The Grade 5 pupil had been left destitute, when the bus driver refused to take him on board, after he’d lost his bus ticket.
Upon arrival at the Mbasana home in Vilakazi Street, Xolelwa Mbasana was surrounded by her children, including Lifalethu.
He’s a Grade 6 pupil at Simon’s Town Primary School.
Mbasana says she and her husband were at work when they’d been notified that their son hadn’t returned home from school.
Lifalethu usually travels home with his younger brother.
While his 10-year-old sibling was let onto the bus … Lifalethu was forced to stay behind because he’d lost his ticket.
He returned home just before 22h00 on Tuesday, surrounded by a huge crowd and law enforcement officials.
His mother says she expected the worst.
Mbasana says her son was, understandably, not in a good state.
The family is happy that the bus driver has been suspended.
They won’t be pressing any charges but want him dismissed from Golden Arrow.
