Prasa promises trains to be running on Cape Town’s busiest line by the end of the year but has yet to relocate hundreds of families who built homes along the railway during the Covid lockdown.
Cosatu and its affiliates commemorated the International Day of Decent Work, 6 October, with marches in urban centres around the country. Elitsha attended the actions in Cape Town, King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape, and Tshwane.
Speakers at the memorial service of slain politician and businessman, Loyiso Nkohla, urged the communities to continue with the struggle. Nkohla joined the ANC in 2004, the DA in 2016, and the Land Party and Patriotic Alliance since then.
The partial re-opening of the central line in Cape Town has brought a collective sigh of relief from commuters.
Prasa says the plan is to have the Central Line operating again by next year December.
Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain residents will have to put up with limited public transport for a long time to come.
Vendors that trade at central line stations say that the suspension of the railway service has negatively affected them.
Problems with public transport will continue to plague commuters from Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain this year.
There is no end in sight of the suspension of the Central line in Cape Town.
Train commuters in Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain, the Western Cape’s most populous areas, have been forced to find alternative transport after the suspension since Monday […]
There is a lack of safety and security on South Africa’s rail network with 3,990 operational occurrences and 9,268 security-related incidents recorded between April 2018 and March 2019.
UNTU which is the majority union at Prasa wants the rail agency to be integrated with Transnet.
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