Topic: Transport | GroundUp

Hundreds stranded in Eastern Cape village after bridge collapses during torrential rains

Many people cannot go to work and learners will be at home until the bridge is repaired

By Yonela Ngqukuvana

Brief | 15 February 2023

Commuters relieved as trains return to one of Cape Town’s busiest stations

PRASA says services in Parow will only be available during the week for now.

By Tariro Washinyira

News | 2 February 2023

Corruption-buster found not guilty of all charges levelled at her by PRASA

Martha Ngoye vindicated as holes poked in testimony of PRASA’s witness

By James Stent

News | 1 February 2023

Metrorail resumes partial service to Eerste River after three years

Cape Town commuters welcome trains as far more affordable than buses or taxis

By Tariro Washinyira

News | 17 January 2023

New trains stand idle as PRASA fails to upgrade depots

Dodgy tender awards and settlement agreement have delayed upgrades

By James Stent

News | 13 January 2023

Metrorail Central Line occupiers protest over delays

Siyahlala and Philippi shack dwellers appeal to Cape Town mayor to get things moving

By Tariro Washinyira

Brief | 8 December 2022

Man dies during eight-hour wait for an ambulance

Only one ambulance for hundreds of villages in Matatiele

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 8 December 2022

Parliament silent on MPs implicated in PRASA corruption

Formal complaint was sent by #UniteBehind to ethics committee in September

By Liezl Human

Brief | 7 December 2022

This taxi rank cost more than R275-million. But nearly a decade later it’s still closed

Thohoyandou taxi owners and businesses want the rank to start operating

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 6 December 2022

Pretoria train stations brought back to life after years of closure

PRASA says 400 stations were vandalised during the Covid lockdown

By Ezekiel Kekana

News | 5 December 2022

Here’s why you won’t be able to catch a train from Khayelitsha this year

PRASA misses court deadline to relocate shack dwellers on Central Line

By Tariro Washinyira

News | 30 November 2022

Freedom Road – an empty promise

For years Madibeng Municipality has said it will fix Itireleng’s main thoroughfare, but nothing has been done

By Chris Gilili

Brief | 29 November 2022

Commuters say they are paying up to three times more because Metrorail is broken

#UniteBehind says good infrastructure, equipment, and security is needed to get the rail service fully operating again.

By Liezl Human

Brief | 28 November 2022

Some Eastern Cape learners walk 20km to and from school. Every day.

15,000 learners who need transport are not getting it. And from next year there’ll be 22,000 more.

By Mkhuseli Sizani

News | 25 November 2022

Matrics, commuters hit by Cape Town taxi strike

Taxi council wants the Blue Dot incentive programme to continue in the Western Cape

Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik, Daniel Steyn, Vusi Mokoena, Sisipho Bakana, Tariro Washinyira, Mary-Anne Gontsana, Peter Luhanga

News | 21 November 2022

Waiting for the scrapheap: hundreds of Shosholoza Meyl’s rusted carriages to be scrapped and sold

Most of PRASA’s long-distance train carriages “obsolete”

By Ezekiel Kekana

News | 3 November 2022