Innibos and TRAC go the extra mile

MBOMBELA – Twenty-four pupils from Valencia Combined School were treated to a day at Innibos after festival organisers approached TRAC to provide free transport to and from the high school in its Bossewaens.

The high school pupils were collected on the school grounds at 09:30 by TRAC staff in two Nissan Produkta buses or Bossewaens and taken to watch the production, Vrou Uit die See before being taken to the festival grounds for an afternoon of fun. They were back at school at 17:00.

Liz Hancke, the teacher who accompanied the pupils, said everyone enjoyed the day out and were very grateful to Innibos and TRAC for organising the excursion.

TRAC sponsored the Bossewaens transport service to Innibos in partnership with Nissan Produkta which provided eight buses to take people to productions at venues outside of the festival grounds.

Theatregoers had to pay R10 per trip or R20 for a round trip. Fifteen TRAC employees worked throughout the festival.

All profits from the Innibos week are to be ploughed back into TRAC’s social- investment projects along the N4 route. These include Care for Wild’s rhino-conservation programme and the production of grass briquettes, a social economic- development project.

Spokesman for TRAC, Solange Soares, said her company worked with the communities along the 570-kilometre N4 route.

“The road is approximately 10 per cent of what we are. Toll roads make up another five per cent. We are so much more than just the N4,” she said.