Residents of KwaMhlanga and Moloto in Mpumalanga are angered over the delay in getting the Moloto Rail Corridor project off the ground. The R60 billion project was announced by the government in 2006.
To date, nothing’s been done. The residents say they want action.
“From work until home, I do not use a taxi, it is only bus. So, when it’s train, I have to use cash and ticket for the train – so I don’t think the train is good for me,” one resident says.
“The only thing that they must do is just to extend that road because sometimes the train will wait at the robot for too long. I don’t like a train, I don’t want to lie,” laments another one.
“I think it is safer and more convenient regardless of the accidents that occur frequently,” a resident says.
Mpumalanga residents protest outside Union Buildings over Moloto rail project delay:
‘Long overdue’
Economist and author, Victor Kgomoeswana says the project is long overdue and that government is obliged to deliver as promised.
“It has to be done; it is not something we should even argue about. When you see the volume of traffic on that road and the number of people on both sites of the road in Dennelton, KwaNdebele or areas like that who work in Pretoria and commute daily and people who live in Pretoria and work in those areas; that traffic justifies everything that this rail road project is about. Remember it will people to be even more productive while they travel, which they can’t do while they’re driving.”
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