Free State education MEC Dr Tate Makgoe has called for the suspension and banning of a transport driver who was recorded allegedly assaulting a pupil in a bus on Monday.
In a video that has gone viral, the driver, who the Free State education department said is 56 years old, is allegedly seen physically abusing a learner in a bus full of other pupils. The driver allegedly kicked the pupil in his stomach, hit and and punched him and tried to push him out of the bus.
Young pupils, who seem to be in lower grades, cried throughout the ordeal while older students were heard in the background trying to stop the driver from assaulting the pupil. The department has identified the child as a 17-year-old grade 12 pupil from Hanover Farm near Bulfontein, in Lejweleputswa district.
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