Figure 1.--These South African children are going to school with a van that it is used as an early school bus. They lived in Karino, a station along the Crocodile River (Eastern Transvaal. Today it is called Mpumalanga on the other side of Nelspruit. This photograph was probably taken in the 1920s or early 30s. Note the school uniform.

Walking to school was not possible in rural areas because of the distances involved. If the farms were particuklarly isolated, the children might have to be sent to boarding schools. Improivements in roads and transport meant that rural children could be brought more easily transported to school and thus still live at home. Thus we see schools buses brining the children to school. We are not sure hen the first school busses operated, but we note them as early as the 1920s. They were for the most part only for white children. Some private schools had their own school buses.

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