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/ 23 October 2009
ANCYL treasurer general Pule Mabe revives Metrorail paper as private business.
A train driver strike went into its fourth day on Thursday with no end in sight to a wage deadlock.
Cape Town commuters tried to force they way into buses after trains ground to a halt in Mitchells Plain on Thursday morning, Western Cape police said.
The strike by Metrorail workers is set to continue on Wednesday, with management on Tuesday stating it would not renegotiate any wage agreements.
A strike by Metrorail train drivers entered a second day on Tuesday as unionists insisted that the labour action had a ”huge impact” on services.
Satawu on Monday distanced itself from a countrywide Metrorail strike after reaching an agreement with the commuter rail service.
Rail workers’ union Utatu said on Saturday its members would strike next week if Metrorail did not restart wage talks.
Deadlocked negotiations could lead to the shutdown of commuter rail operations, trade unions representing workers in the sector warned on Wednesday.
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/ 3 February 2009
Two accident-hit train lines resumed normal services on Tuesday, as Metrorail announced a number of safety interventions.
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/ 3 February 2009
Signal failure is the likely cause behind the two train crashes on Monday, Railway Safety Regulator spokesperson Kwazi Kwaza said on Tuesday.
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/ 2 February 2009
About 160 commuters, including a pregnant woman, were injured when two Jo’burg-bound Metrorail passenger trains collided with each other on Monday.
”To be quite honest, trains at one stage were unreliable,” says Leon Vender, settling back into the plush seats of the new Business Express, a spanking new train service launched last week. While other commuters are battling the morning hell-run between Johannesburg and Pretoria, these commuters are sipping coffee and taking in the view.
Durban’s disaster-management team and city officials are busy calculating the cost of damage caused during a heavy downpour on Tuesday night that continued into the early hours of Wednesday. Two oil refineries, hospitals, courts, homes, shacks, railway lines, buildings and roads were affected by the overnight storm.
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/ 19 January 2008
Three trains were set alight in Pretoria by angry commuters, police said on Friday. Captain Prince Mokhabela said the first train was burnt in Pretoria North at 6pm. ”There was a power failure and commuters got angry as trains were not moving. People also burned trains at Walmerton and Winterveld,” he said.
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/ 23 October 2007
Metrorail may suspend its KwaZulu-Natal train services if rampant train vandalism and assaults on staff members continue unchecked, said Metrorail regional manager Sisa Mtwa at a media briefing in Durban on Tuesday. The worst-affected areas are KwaMashu and Umlazi — an area that carries 80% of Metrorail’s passengers.
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/ 18 September 2007
There is a ”massive” service crisis within rail-passenger company Metrorail, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. There are also concerns about the Transnet division’s readiness for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, DA MP Mpowele Swath said in a statement. Responding, Metrorail on Tuesday denied the claims that it was experiencing a service crisis.