Business owners, traders vow to protect Mabopane trains from vandals, criminals

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Pretoria - “Wa thinta ma train wa thinta impilo yethu” (You strike a train, you strike our well-being).

This is the stern warning by business owners and informal traders to anyone who attempts to vandalise the Mabopane rail corridor, which reopened on Monday. It had closed in 2019 and was recently refurbished.

The traders, who rely on the rail traffic to make a living, vowed to protect the corridor from vandals and criminals.

Mandla Mathibela, who has been running a cellphone repair shop just outside the Mabopane Station since three years before its closure, said many businesses closed down.

Mathibela said they got one or two customers a day, which made it impossible to survive, and his only saving grace was his regular customers.

“People were no longer coming here because there were no trains, and they were also worried about their safety, so we tried our best to keep things clean. They kept asking us when the trains would return, and now that they’re back, that hope has returned

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[RedViking]

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[RonSwanson]

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[mojoman]

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Lol...till something sets them off and they burn the trains themselves....Things don't last here....