The South African Human Rights Commission will investigate scholar transport in the Eastern Cape.
This, after it agreed that the complaint laid by Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader, Lindiwe Mazibuko, fell within the mandate of the Human Rights Commission.
"This letter serves to confirm that your complaint falls within the mandate of the South African Human Rights Commission and will be investigated," the Commission said.
Mazibuko laid the complaint after completing a 12km walk in April in solidarity with the many learners in the Eastern Cape who still walk to school.
In her complaint Mazibuko said the fact that young children have to walk excessive distances to school is an affront to the Constitution and the rights and guarantees it enshrines.
"This is an affront to our constitution, and the rights and freedoms it enshrines, which provide that basic education must be made progressively available and accessible by the state, through reasonable measures," she said in a statement on Monday.
"At the root of this problem lie mismanagement and chronic levels of corruption in the Eastern Cape education system."
"This dysfunctional administration spent only 28% of its R1.45 billion education budget last year. In a domino effect, as new schools fail to be built, children are forced to walk longer distances to reach schools far from their community," Mazibuko said.
