Great hopes for SA’s rail plan
Everyone will benefit, including private investors and Transnet, writes Donwald Pressly
26 November 2020 - 08:00
There are two ways of looking at the proposed "open access" policy envisaged for SA’s vast railway network.
The 2,000km of rail lines in the country can be seen as a huge potential asset — ripe for the picking by the private sector — or as a burdensome colonial-era legacy, peppered with anachronistic rolling stock, rapidly being destroyed...
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