Stripped bare: Looting till there is nothing left of Gauteng’s rail network

[Sinbad]

Stripped bare: Looting till there is nothing left of Gauteng’s rail network

Many train commuters have no choice but to travel on more expensive modes of transport after extensive vandalism and pillaging of the rail infrastructure, especially during the Covid-19 lockdown. Daily Maverick visited stations around Gauteng and saw the devastation — and also witnessed...

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Many train commuters have no choice but to travel on more expensive modes of transport after extensive vandalism and pillaging of the rail infrastructure, especially during the Covid-19 lockdown. Daily Maverick visited stations around Gauteng and saw the devastation — and also witnessed pillaging first-hand.

 

[Binary_Bark]

Welcome to Africa.

 

[supersunbird]

Prasa confirmed in September that only three out of 17 rail lines were operational in Gauteng.

I see decolonisation is making shift progress.

 

[Lupus]

When nothing happens to you, you're going to keep doing the bad things, especially when you've got no food, no morals and lack of thought.
Proudly brought to you by the ANC

 

[dunkyd]

Ashes to ashes, the Africa way ......

 

[Jabulani22]

If you can't catch them doing it then catch them where they sell it .

 

[Lupus]

If you can't catch them doing it then catch them where they sell it .

There a laws in place that scrap meal dealers aren't allowed to buy rails and copper, but as usual laws aren't followed as enforcement is lacking.

 

[rietrot]

Policing has completely collapsed and the criminals can just run free and do what they want.

 

[jack_spratt]

Once the train system collapses, the road system will become totally gridlocked.

 

[Binary_Bark]

Policing has completely collapsed and the criminals can just run free and do what they want.

Happens when your government is the biggest criminals in the country

 

[supersunbird]

If you can't catch them doing it then catch them where they sell it .

They are barely trying to do that either.

 

[Lupus]

They are barely trying to do that either.

Were they drinking or smoking during the lockdown? No? Then the police didn't care, were they out past curfew? Probably but there's no point in arresting them they have no money.

 

[Brenden_E]

Stripped bare: Looting till there is nothing left of Gauteng’s rail network

Many train commuters have no choice but to travel on more expensive modes of transport after extensive vandalism and pillaging of the rail infrastructure, especially during the Covid-19 lockdown. Daily Maverick visited stations around Gauteng and saw the devastation — and also witnessed...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

Many train commuters have no choice but to travel on more expensive modes of transport after extensive vandalism and pillaging of the rail infrastructure, especially during the Covid-19 lockdown. Daily Maverick visited stations around Gauteng and saw the devastation — and also witnessed pillaging first-hand.

I know most of us are PHD candidate cynics by now, but man this photo hits hard.
It's represents how infrastructure to enable our country to prosper has been wholesale looted. Millions robbed of their potential by a few.

I need to get my immigration sorted so I can pretend to forget about my home country - watching it erode makes me depressed.

 

[nightjar]

Railway stations, lines and cables are all monuments to the ingenuity of all those who arrived in Africa after 1652 and, if CR ever gets to learn about this de-monumentalization, he will appreciate his vision of the future.

 

[Sinbad]

The anc is very happy this has happened.

Now this all needs to be reinstated.

It's tenderpreneur time! Bring on the kickbacks, inflated prices, middlemen, facilitators and a big fat infrastructure loan from china. Who cares if they repossess half the country when we can't repay it?

 

[RedViking]

Lol

 

[supersunbird]

The anc is very happy this has happened.

Now this all needs to be reinstated.

It's tenderpreneur time! Bring on the kickbacks, inflated prices, middlemen, facilitators and a big fat infrastructure loan from china. Who cares if they repossess half the country when we can't repay it?

Reinstated? I don't think they will even try.

 

[Sinbad]

Reinstated? I don't think they will even try.

Why not? There's huge money to be siphoned off here. They're talking 40 bar per KILOMETER.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

seeing this firsthand, how they slowly but surely stripping everything around them,
manhole covers, electrical distribution boxes, light fixtures,

anything they can put their hands on they steal, nobody to catch them, so its open season.

why cant they do something useful like steal a etoll gantry?

 

[konfab]

Two years after oppression vs 26 years.

The dirty fact of South Africa is the Nats valued the black working class far more than the ANC.

All the ANC sees of the black working class is a voting block. Nothing more. It doesn't matter to the ANC if people can't get to work or not.

The Nats valued the black working class for their work. Which was why infrastructure like rail was actually functional such that they could go and work for the baas.