LEGAL ISSUES and two secondary schools. The In a submission to the Standing majority of learners and teachers Committee on Appropriations in 2017, surveyed were female. Equal Education, a membership- The survey questioned learners’ based movement of learners, satisfaction with the location of the parents, teachers and community schools they attended, with only members, noted that ‘the lack of 16% noting they were dissatisfied. adequate and sufficient scholar However, 61% of the learners surveyed transport cripples a learner’s ability to travel 10 kilometres from home to access schooling, and consequently school, with 26% indicating that they violates many South African learners’ travelled more than 20 kilometres, constitutionally protected right to a thus demonstrating that learners basic education’. Dr Fobosi’s study rely on scholar transport to exercise of Amathole West validates this the right to access basic education. observation by identifying the high These findings indicate that scholar proportion of learners’ long distances transport plays an important role in from schools, and so identifies the ensuring the realisation of the right to need for the NLTP to be implemented access basic education. as soon as possible if learners’ rights are to be realised. Research Report 2021/2022 | 66