BusinessLive reports that Transport Minister Blade Nzimande "cleared his schedule" to visit Cape Town on Friday after the latest in a series of commuter train fires.  

Brett Herron‚ Cape Town’s MEC for transport‚ said he would join Nzimande at the Metrorail depot in Paarden Island "to view the damage to [rail] infrastructure due to sustained attacks on Metrorail trains in the past few months".  Nzimande’s visit follows a fire on Thursday that damaged five carriages of a train at Retreat station‚ in Cape Town’s southern suburbs.  “As a result‚ commuters who are travelling to the far south will have to travel at least an hour longer to get home this evening‚" said Herron on Thursday.  While the cause of the fire was still being determined‚ it follows on an alleged arson attack on Saturday when several carriages of two train sets were destroyed at the Cape Town station.

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