{"id":47703,"date":"2026-07-08T02:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/keynote-address-by-transport-minister-creecy-at-the-africa-rail-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:53:23","slug":"keynote-address-by-transport-minister-creecy-at-the-africa-rail-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/keynote-address-by-transport-minister-creecy-at-the-africa-rail-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote address by Transport Minister Creecy at the Africa Rail Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers of Transport from the broader African Continent present<br \/>\nRepresentatives of Foreign Governments from our African continent and abroad<br \/>\nPermanent Secretaries, Director Generals, Chief Executive Officers<br \/>\nCaptains of Industry; Members of the rail industry and operators from South Africa, SADC and the African continent at large<br \/>\nMembers of the media,<br \/>\nDistinguished guests<br \/>\nProgramme Director<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and Gentlemen,Thank you for inviting me to deliver a keynote address at the 26th Africa Rail Conference and Exhibition, convened under the theme: &ldquo;Investment, Development, and Technology for Rail Operators, End-Users, Government and Investors&rdquo;.We gather at a pivotal moment for South Africa&rsquo;s rail sector and for the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>Across Africa rail is recognised as a strategic driver of economic growth, regional integration, industrialisation and sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>For South Africa this is the moment of transformation as our rail reform programme moves&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77894&#038;page=keynote-address-by-transport-minister-creecy-at-the-africa-rail-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers of Transport from the broader African Continent present Representatives of Foreign Governments from our African continent and abroad Permanent Secretaries, Director Generals, Chief Executive Officers Captains of Industry; Members of the rail industry and operators from South Africa, SADC and the African continent at large Members of the media, Distinguished guests Programme Director Ladies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/741820603_1048408337851903_7613371100402764494_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/741820603_1048408337851903_7613371100402764494_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}