For many people in South Africa, getting to work on time is a daily struggle which costs them a chunk of their earnings.
Cape Town’s largest passenger rail line has been closed for months, hitting people’s pockets and adding to road traffic congestion in the city
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/ 19 February 2020
Cape Town’s largest passenger rail line has been closed for months, hitting people’s pockets and adding to road traffic congestion
Cape Town’s transport problems have reached a crisis point and officials are seeking solutions before the rail system breaks down
The strike comes after a “stalemate in wage talks” between unions and employer associations
A crash between two Metrorail trains at the Geldenhuys train station in Germiston has left over 200 commuters moderately injured on Tuesday morning.
Corruption still bedevils the agency but Molepo says he will not be an armchair chief executive
Power failure brings Cape Town trains to a halt across the city
The ads for penis enlargement in Cape Town’s Metrorail are getting a bit much for Hansie Smit who would prefer Gauteng’s speed and efficiency.
The trade federation in Cape Town, which plans to protest, has urged Metrorail to delay increasing its fares until its services had improved.
Road closures and public transport disruptions will mean residents of Soweto and greater Gauteng could struggle to get to work on Tuesday.
A group of irate commuters have threatened to torch Gautrain coaches if the authorities do not urgently improve the Metrorail train service.
Problems at the passenger train service Metrorail are detrimental to South Africa’s economic growth and development, says President Jacob Zuma.
Prices hikes for everything have put the poor and middle class under strain and they are going to have to make some adjustments.
Metrorail has said an illegal strike by its train drivers over the lack of security and high rate of abuse and harassment by commuters has ended.
Train drivers were not prepared to be "scapegoats" for Metrorail’s system failures, the United Transport and Allied Workers’ Union said on Friday.
A 2009 report shows collisions climbed sharply, compelling more stringent safety standards.
The Railway Safety Regulator is investigating a passenger train collision that took place in Soweto at about 5.50pm on Thursday afternoon.
A train driver was killed and 200 people were injured when two Metrorail trains collided at about 4pm on Friday.
Protesting Johannesburg train commuters on Wednesday called for the reinstatement of Transnet as an operator.
Staff ‘fleece’ Metrorail in online scam; meanwhile, in the Eastern Cape, government cannot get its trains back on track.
A power cut that crippled trains stranded 2 000 World Cup fans until early on Thursday morning after hosts SA’s 3-0 defeat by Uruguay.
World Cup fans, leave your car — public transport wins hands down in Jozi.
A strike by SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union members against the Passenger Rail Agency of SA went into its third week on Monday.
Metrorail trains will be running in Gauteng from Monday following a strike that left thousands of commuters stranded nationwide last week.
Some progress was made in wage talks between Prasa and labour unions on Monday, with the rail operator changing certain conditions of its offer.
A strike by rail workers left two million commuters stranded on Monday just 24 days from the kick-off of the Soccer World Cup.
The Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) has promised the government that it would reach a wage agreement with striking unions by mid-week.
Train commuters will be left stranded on Monday due to a nation-wide strike by transport unions, the Passenger Rail Agency of SA said on Monday.
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/ 28 January 2010
A strike by Metrorail workers continued into a fourth day on Thursday, despite a court interdict ordering them back to work, the company said.
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/ 27 January 2010
A Metrorail strike by members of the Satawu is set to end — at least temporarily — following a court interdict, the union said on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2010
Metrorail workers embarked on a strike on Monday, following the summary dismissal of eight train drivers, Satawu said.