SLEEPING ON THE RAILWAY

Two brothers aged 16 and 17 who went to sleep on the railway near Lions Den north of Harare were killed by a train on 17 December. Discussing the strange incident at some length, the Herald newspaper...

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TRAIN RUNS OVER HORSEGUARDS

According to an 8 January Sapa report, two security officers who were patrolling on horseback near Elsburg railway station, south of Germiston, were knocked down by a train. Both men and both horses...

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STORM DISRUPTS NRZ

While floods were disrupting rail services in the Pacific North-West on 3 December, a severe thunderstorm pounded Harare, causing extensive flooding and carving craters along the railway. Commuter...

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FIRE DESTROYS COACHES

Cape Town fire fighters have brought under control a fire which broke out in an industrial building in Salt River early on Tuesday. Johan Minnie of the City's disaster management said the fire, which...

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LIGHTNING PARTIALLY KNOCKS OUT COAL LINE

On 22 November, lightning struck two transformers supplying power to the Richards Bay coal line. It was expected that repairs to the one unit could be effected within seven days, but that the other...

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DERAILING THE COAL (SA)

According to a Business Day report, the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) shipped 23% less coal in October 2007 than in the corresponding month last year.  A derailment on the heavy-haul coal line...

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FLOODS DISRUPT CONGO-OCEAN

FLOODS DISRUPT CONGO-OCEAN RAILWAY Sections of Chemin de fer Congo-Océan (CFCO), the 509km railway linking Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noire have been flooded following heavy rains,...

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WHERE THE LIFTS DON'T LIFT

When the Conradie hospital in Pinelands, specialising in care for the disabled, was closed four years ago, the Western Cape Rehabilitation Centre was re-established at Lentegeur, near Mitchells Plain....

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CABLE THEFT SENTENCING

At an early October business breakfast in Gauteng hosted by The Star and Safmarine, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula was asked by Transnet to consider harsher sentences for criminals found...

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SA COAL LINE PROBLEMS

Derailments described as "minor" disrupted traffic along the coal line on 25 September and 7 October. A number of trains had to be cancelled but no shipping was delayed in port at Richards Bay as the...

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