A year ago, the Mail & Guardian reported how the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link was raising property ­values in areas near planned stations. Set to revolutionise how Gautengers travel, the single line transecting major suburbs could get commuters off the roads, and to their destinations much faster.

It’s hard to imagine what Freeman* must be feeling. He hasn’t been able to move more than 100m for the last two months at the risk of being arrested. He’s gone all that time without a bath or a change of clothes and he complains about being covered in lice. Freeman is just one of the more than 500 Zimbabwean asylum-seekers who live in the queue outside the home affairs office in Marabastad, Pretoria.

IN a bid to make Spoornet profitable, Transnet plans to shut down all Eastern Cape railway lines with the sole exception of vital goods and passenger routes between Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Transnet Managing Director Saki Macozoma said it aims to keep profitable lines only – essentially lines linking major centres and the Reef with […]

Iden Wetherell The detention by military police this week of a Harare newspaper editor could signal the beginning of a media crackdown by President Robert Mugabe, who has been angered by press reports of misrule and setbacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Following renewed flak from Zimbabwe’s independent media and a drubbing in the […]