Unprecedented drama followed a power outage in central Cape Town on 21 January. Nearly a thousand people were stranded on Table Mountain, almost a hundred in two cable cars that stalled in mid-air....
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Damage estimated at R152 million was caused on 18 January when furious commuters set fire to six Metrorail trains north of Pretoria. Power went off at about 16:00, bringing everything to a standstill....
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Altogether, six motor coaches and 18 trailers were destroyed, according to SA Rail Commuter Corporation CEO Lucky Montana. Police Captain Prince Mokhabela told the media that the trouble started at...
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The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) is alarmed at the torching of Metrorail trains in Tshwane. This is a criminal act which we condemn in the strongest possible terms. We call upon the law...
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Vandalism is causing huge headaches for NRZ, the National Railways of Zimbabwe. The problem is especially bad in the south east, where 44km of six-strand copper cabling along railway lines was stolen...
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Technical problems at Bellville caused lengthy delays to early morning commuter trains to Cape Town on 10 January.
Public address announcements and notices at Cape Town station attributed the...
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Peak-hour trains on the Cape Town-Maitland-Pinelands-Athlone-Southfield so-called 'Cape Flats line', which joins the Simon's Town route at Diep River junction, terminate in platform 3 at Heathfield, a...
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According to a report in the East African Business Week (published in Kampala), sections of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala railway were 'destroyed in some towns in Kenya' during the civil unrest...
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Two brothers aged 16 and 17 who went to sleep on the railway near Lions Den north of Harare were killed by a train on 17 December. Discussing the strange incident at some length, the Herald newspaper...
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According to an 8 January Sapa report, two security officers who were patrolling on horseback near Elsburg railway station, south of Germiston, were knocked down by a train. Both men and both horses...
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