Two trains were burned by commuters after a power outage at Durban and Berea stations. The damage amounts to approximately R10 million. It is not certain that the power outages may be related to cable theft.
Train drivers had to be rescued by the police after their lives were threatened.
Cape Town’s rail traffic has already been paralyzed by vandalism, which means that train the services had to be sharply reduced. It seems that it can happen in Durban, and eventually elsewhere in the country.
Observers shake their heads on the way in which protest action is taken, especially in view of the fact that the same people mostly arrive late for meetings and live on Africa time anyway, but burn and destroy things if they do not run according to their schedule.
The chief executive officer of Prasa, Molepo says that such actions make people embarrassed to say they are South Africans.
This is increasingly the reason why Afrikaners don’t want to be called “South Africans” and are proud of Afrikaner ship, with different and civilized values.
Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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