Western Cape learner transport operations to resume today following positive talks [SOUND]

# Western Cape Education MEC Jaco Londt says learner transport services will resume today, after constructive talks with the South African National Small Bus Operators Council. SANSBOC suspended operations yesterday, the first day of the fourth school term, leaving 21-thousand-934 learners stranded. It cited the absence of a meaningful response from the department regarding the urgent financial crisis facing learner transport contractors. Londt says the current economic climate, with high fuel prices, makes it nearly impossible for transport operators to have a sustainable business model: