South Africa's railway system on the brink of collapse

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Total destruction — Photos of the horrific state of South Africa's train system

South Africa's passenger railway system is on the brink of total collapse, brought to its knees by thieves and vandals who have gutted many of its stations and railway tracks into a post-apocalyptic-like state.

Rail journalist David Williams previously detailed the worrying condition of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa's (Prasa's) network in a report for the Brenthurst Foundation.
 
I think its time for Cape Town to seperate and then ban these looters from looting their infrastructure then moving here and continue looting it here.

Also anyone caught looting, should loose all social benefits.

In matter of fact we should install the Chinese Social Credit system. Loot and get caught then kiss education for your kids goodbye, kiss social services goodbye, kiss taking any public transport goodbye.

Do good, and then maybe over time you can have some back.

All that will happen with these looters and thieves, a simply smack on the hand and let them not do it again.

Just look at how the ones in Cape Town who built their shacks on the tracks are demanding formal housing. Nothing like a freight train overrunning the shacks and even if it causes death, it would be a simple. you should have known better.
 
Pineapple Smurf said:
Old news Jan

Taxi industry has been destroying the rail lines for the last 5 to 10 years, everyone knows that
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And the taxi industry pays a total of R5 million corporate tax for the entire multi billion rand industry, but are you aware that we pay for the Fuel levy so they dont get blamed when killing someone with bad driving, or that we spend billions on building them their taxi stops, and that we sell them route licenses for R200 but we have to buy it back at R5-10 million if we want to run the bus in the same area.

Both the ANC and the DA are heavily corrupted by their dealings with the taxi industry.
 
Corelli said:
And the taxi industry pays a total of R5 million corporate tax for the entire multi billion rand industry, but are you aware that we pay for the Fuel levy so they dont get blamed when killing someone with bad driving, or that we spend billions on building them their taxi stops, and that we sell them route licenses for R200 but we have to buy it back at R5-10 million if we want to run the bus in the same area.

Both the ANC and the DA are heavily corrupted by their dealings with the taxi industry.
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Come back to Planet Earth and please stop taking drugs
 
The ANC has f@cked up the country infrastructure. They were given a jump start that none of the other African countries had. All they had to do was maintain it. But they could not even do that. Why, because everything cost more than it should simply because each connected cadre must get a whole pie not just a slice of the pie. And here we are today.
 
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