Losses on Joburg-Durban freight corridor bigger than state capture – Francois Nortjé
Transnet has sent an SOS to government about freight chaos on the Joburg-Durban corridor, urgently calling for action to combat sabotage.
Transnet has sent an SOS to government about freight chaos on the Joburg-Durban corridor, urgently calling for action to combat sabotage.
South Africa’s crucial rail line, connecting the country’s wealthiest province to the largest container port on the continent, has been severely crippled by an epidemic of power-cable theft.
As trains ground to a halt in SA, students from Soshanguve decided to come up with a solution and developed a solar powered train locomotive.
Francois Nortje says the national interest demands that state-owned Transnet be broken into much smaller pieces and urgently privatised.
Francois Nortje joined Alec Hogg to discuss the recent cyber attack on Transnet. He says Transnet is a soft target for organised crimes.
A number of Telkom facilities around the country were yesterday targeted in a series of acts of sabotage.