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News24 reports that military veterans are being trained to guard the Passenger Rail Agency of SA's (Prasa’s) rail network against the rampant plundering that has left some stations gutted and chunks of track missing from railway lines.
Irene Mpolweni, director-general of the military veterans department, visited the training centre in Maitland, Cape Town, on Thursday and advised that the veterans would work for Prasa when they had completed their training. She said the trainees had been drawn from a database of military veterans from non-statutory forces who had left SA during their resistance to the apartheid regime. She said they did not have many work opportunities as a result of their anti-apartheid activities and so the department had included the Prasa programme to provide options. After this first group, more people are expected to be trained. When asked for comment on the prospects of the programme, Neil Maynard, of the Cape Coloured Corps Veterans Association, said they did not know about it, so they had not applied. Last year, Cabinet ministers Thandi Modise, Mondli Gungubele and Thabang Makwetla were held hostage by an angry group of veterans at a conference centre in Irene. Also, a group called Liberation Struggle War Veterans breached the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters seeking R2.2 million each in reparations. A task team, based in President Cyril Ramaphosa's office, deals with military veterans' complaints and the realignment of the organisations meant to represent them.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jenni Evans at News24
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