Richard Anthony Chemaly
If Minister Fikile Mbalula was half as 'visible' doing his job as he is on Twitter, we might not have needed a complete overhaul of our rail infrastructure.
Grandfathers around the Sunday lunch table this weekend will be rejoicing at Minister Razzmatazz’s acknowledgement that we need to move freight off the roads and onto the tracks. After all, anybody driving on the single lane sections of the N1 has been agonising over this for years. It should be one of the easiest things to do, or at least it should have been when we still had functional rail. Before lockdown about 170 goods trains were cancelled because of spikes in overhead cable theft. Today, many parts of the network that once blossomed and made car manufacturers love South...
