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News24 reports that a Golden Arrow bus was torched at the Nyanga terminus in Cape Town on Friday, hours after Metrorail said its train services were being sabotaged by repeated vandalism of a major power sub-station that feeds the line.
Bronwen Dyke-Beyer, spokesperson for Golden Arrow, said: "According to eyewitnesses, the perpetrators are alleged to be linked to the taxi industry. The motive is unknown … As a precautionary measure, we are currently operating from Nyanga [police station] rather than the terminus." Andile Khanyi of the Cape Organisation for the Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta) said it was not in dispute with anyone, and had nothing to do with the torching of the bus. The burning of the bus came after Metrorail reported on Friday morning that sabotage at Eskom's Bay Junction sub-station, where trains park, made operations on some of its lines difficult. "The Southern Line service is our demonstration corridor of what we are bringing in the Western Cape. The sabotage of our rail infrastructure is jeopardising the hard work of returning the service to those who desperately need it. We are determined to return the rail services and we will not cower to criminals," said Kaparo Molefi, acting regional manager of Western Cape Metrorail. Metrorail launched its full Southern Line service on 4 January, and is adding more trains to the schedule.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jenni Evans and Lisalee Solomons at News24
- Read too, SAPS searches for arsonists who set alight a Golden Arrow bus, at EWN
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