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DAN PLATO: ‘PRASA MUST COME TO THE TABLE’
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ollowing the destruction of 18 carriages, amounting to R61 million in Cape Town station on Thursday 28 November, mayor Dan Plato requested the Hawks to establish a special unit to investigate the burning of trains. Thousands of commuters using the northern line to Cape Town were left stranded after the incident last week. Over the past three years, more than 140 train carriages, which make up over 40 train sets, have been burnt in several incidents. Yet not a single person has been prosecuted, according to Plato. City fire and rescue services arrived at Cape Town railway station at about 02:20 where they found carriages ablaze on five platforms. The fire was extinguished at 04:53 and no injuries were reported. The scene was handed over to the Passenger Rail Association of South Africa (Prasa). In a statement on Thursday afternoon, Plato said he would write to president Cyril Ramaphosa to request intervention from the Hawks. “Thousands of commuters suffer the consequences of not being able to get to work and school on time, and jobs are lost, the people in charge show no plan of action as nobody is held accountable for this economic sabotage,” he stated. Plato says only one person, deemed to be mentally unfit, was arrested some months ago and that the police had failed the people of Cape Town. “Our rail service is a shadow of its former self and as hundreds of thousands of former rail commuters abandon the trains, we see our roads clog up with more cars, buses and taxis. Prasa, Metrorail and the police need to get their house in order. “We cannot continue to allow their failures to impact the residents of this city. If those managing the rail service do not want to run the railway, then hand it over to those who have shown they can govern effectively. Our residents deserve better,” he said. In his turn, DA Western Cape leader Bonginkosi Madikizela, said this was a massive blow to the province’s rail recovery plan.
According to Madikizela, Prasa refused to accompany him on a visit or grant access to the station. “This is just one of several similar incidents and the perpetrators would ha-
ve been long arrested if we had proper intelligence. There is clearly a syndicate that is sabotaging the system. “The national Department of Transport and Prasa must stop
being territorial and come to the party so that we can find solutions to this problem,” he said in a statement on Thursday. V To page 2
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Infinity, die Elf-wyfiekat van Voné Schreuder van Doordekraal, was Saterdag een van die skaars katsoorte wat geskou is by die internasionale katskou van die Cat Association of Southern Africa (Casa) by die Durbanville-renbaan. Infinity is aangewys as Casa se beste teenoorgesteldegeslag-kat en naasbeste kat op die skou. Infinity het ook die titel as SA Grand-kampioen verwerf. Sien meer foto’s op bladsy 8. FOTO: ESMÉ ERASMUS
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