While floods were disrupting rail services in the Pacific North-West on 3 December, a severe thunderstorm pounded Harare, causing extensive flooding and carving craters along the railway. Commuter...
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Cape Town fire fighters have brought under control a fire which broke out in an industrial building in Salt River early on Tuesday.
Johan Minnie of the City's disaster management said the fire, which...
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On 22 November, lightning struck two transformers supplying power to the Richards Bay coal line. It was expected that repairs to the one unit could be effected within seven days, but that the other...
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According to a Business Day report, the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) shipped 23% less coal in October 2007 than in the corresponding month last year. A derailment on the heavy-haul coal line...
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FLOODS DISRUPT CONGO-OCEAN RAILWAY
Sections of Chemin de fer Congo-Océan (CFCO), the 509km railway linking Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noire have been flooded following heavy rains,...
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When the Conradie hospital in Pinelands, specialising in care for the disabled, was closed four years ago, the Western Cape Rehabilitation Centre was re-established at Lentegeur, near Mitchells Plain....
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At an early October business breakfast in Gauteng hosted by The Star and Safmarine, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula was asked by Transnet to consider harsher sentences for criminals found...
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Derailments described as "minor" disrupted traffic along the coal line on 25 September and 7 October. A number of trains had to be cancelled but no shipping was delayed in port at Richards Bay as the...
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According to Business Against Crime (BAC) project leader Lorinda Nel, quoted by Sake-Rapport, the theft of copper cables costs South Africa an estimated R500 million annually, in the light of details...
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On 25 September, minor damage was reported following the derailment of empty wagons in a train on Transnet Freight Rail's coal line. Both Up and Down tracks were blocked, disrupting traffic, but no...
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