{"id":46020,"date":"2026-04-24T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/limpopo-mec-for-transport-and-community-safety-ms-violet-mathye-is-handing-over-195-shovakalula-bicycles-to-learners-who-walk-long-distances-to-school-in-vhembe-district\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:22:27","slug":"limpopo-mec-for-transport-and-community-safety-ms-violet-mathye-is-handing-over-195-shovakalula-bicycles-to-learners-who-walk-long-distances-to-school-in-vhembe-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/limpopo-mec-for-transport-and-community-safety-ms-violet-mathye-is-handing-over-195-shovakalula-bicycles-to-learners-who-walk-long-distances-to-school-in-vhembe-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Limpopo MEC for Transport and Community Safety, Ms. Violet Mathye, is handing over 195 Shovakalula bicycles to learners who walk long distances to school in Vhembe District."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limpopo MEC for Transport and Community Safety, Ms. Violet Mathye, is handing over 195 Shovakalula bicycles to learners who walk long distances to school in Vhembe District.<\/p>\n<p>08h00: Rivubye Secondary School, Valdezia &ndash; 95 bicycles  <\/p>\n<p>10h00: Vhafamadi Secondary School, Tshirando &ndash; 100 bicycles  <\/p>\n<p>The MEC is joined by the political leadership of Makhado Local Municipality, Collins Chabane Local Municipality, and Vhembe District Municipality. Also present are the  Acting HOD, Mr. Paul Mainganyi and officials from Transport and Community Safety, the Department of Education led by the Vhembe West District Director, and the Local Traditional Council.<\/p>\n<p>The Shovakalula Project removes transport barriers to learning and keeps our children safe on the road to education. MEC Mathye will use today&rsquo;s handover to drive home scholar transport safety.<\/p>\n<p>No learner should walk 5km to school when we can give them wheels.<\/p>\n<p>ISSUED BY: Limpopo Department of Transport and Community&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77157&#038;page=limpopo-mec-for-transport-and-community-safety-ms-violet-mathye-is-handing-over-195-shovakalula-bicycles-to-learners-who-walk-long-distances-to-school-in-vhembe-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limpopo MEC for Transport and Community Safety, Ms. Violet Mathye, is handing over 195 Shovakalula bicycles to learners who walk long distances to school in Vhembe District. 08h00: Rivubye Secondary School, Valdezia &ndash; 95 bicycles 10h00: Vhafamadi Secondary School, Tshirando &ndash; 100 bicycles The MEC is joined by the political leadership of Makhado Local Municipality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/680646565_1468759245291847_2137805614147453972_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[339],"class_list":["post-46020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-limpopo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/680646565_1468759245291847_2137805614147453972_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}