South Africa: Bus ordeal – Boy back at school and on the bus after he was refused entry

Lifalethu Mbasana is back on the bus and back in class after his seven-and-a-half-hour ordeal earlier this week.

Lifalethu made headlines after he had to make his own way from school in Cape Town’s Deep South to his home in Khayelitsha after a bus driver would not allow him to board. He was later reunited with his worried mother.

The boy’s mother, Siba, told Daily Maverick that the family had no option but to take the Golden Arrow bus, as their car was broken. “People are very…