News24 reports that the family of a Metrorail train driver who was gunned down at a Cape Town train station is still battling to get monthly compensation owed to them approved by the state, 12 months later.  

Tania Botha, wife of former train driver Piet Botha, said her family has been struggling financially for a full year since the death of her husband.  Piet was murdered at Netreg Station in July last year while waiting for a train to return to his home in Malmesbury.  He had spent the day training a younger colleague.  Four people have been arrested in connection with his murder and are awaiting trial.  To date, Tania has only been given a R44,000 "widow's lump sum" and a R17,000 burial fee from Workmen's Compensation, she said.  She has been waiting since then for the monthly compensation owed to her under the COIDA Act, to be signed off by the Department of Labor's Compensation Fund.

• Read this report by Paul Herman in full at News24

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