Gautrain Approved, Roads Still Deadlocked
Well the Gautrain has been approved and I’m fully expecting the guys from Commentary to start their campaign of sabotage sometome soon. And this is probably one of the few topics in SA today where...
View ArticleTaxi Recapitalisation Lurches Forward
Finally! After delay after delay the Taxi Recapitalisation Program is finally moving forward, albeit slowly. The target was to scrap 75% to 80% of the oldest vehicles on provincial databases – some...
View ArticleGovernment's Name Changing Flip Flop
I don’t know if the Mail & Guardian did this on purpose in ordering the stories on their front page. First the second ranked story: ANC: KZN name change not a priorityThe African National Congress...
View ArticleSA Transport Issues Continue
Transport in South Africa has never really been very efficient. In Parliament Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe admitted that because of the inefficiencies of SA’s rail network more and more freight...
View ArticleTrevor Manuel Talks Transport
One of my pet issues is transport so it’s good to see the current major transport crises facing Cape Town and Johannesburg being put in the spotlight by Minister of Transport... Finance Trevor Manuel...
View ArticleTrain Networks Upgraded - But It's Not Enough
It’s about time that the Dept of Transport has finally decided to allocate some funds towards upgrading the trains that hundreds of thousands of commuters use everyday. Except that the R40 million to...
View ArticleGautrain In Unsafe Hands
The Gauteng Department of Transport is unable to account for millions of Rands in revenue. The accounting records kept by the department were so poor that Gauteng Auditor-General Adronica Masemola...
View ArticleGauteng To Get Another Multi-Billion Rand Train
What is it with Gauteng and expensive railway projects? Gauteng Finance and Economic Affairs MEC Paul Mashatile has announced the building of a R12 billion monorail linking Soweto and Johannesburg....
View ArticleState Has No Idea About JHB Monorail
Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe says the first time he heard about the proposed monorail between Soweto and Johannesburg was when he read about it in the paper. Radebe said it was not clear “what...
View ArticleGauteng Monorail Back In Talks
Has Gauteng Premier Mcebisi Mbhazima Shilowa ever seen a multi-billion Rand train project he didn’t like? First we had the Gautrain (R20 billion and probably rising) and then we had the proposed Soweto...
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