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New train manufacturing plant launched in Nigel

25 October 2018, 5:02 PM  |
Abongile Dumako Abongile Dumako |  @SABCNews
President Cyril Ramaphosa visits the train manufacturing plant at Dunnottar Park in the City of Ekurhuleni

President Cyril Ramaphosa visits the train manufacturing plant at Dunnottar Park in the City of Ekurhuleni

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President Cyril Ramaphosa visits the train manufacturing plant at Dunnottar Park in the City of Ekurhuleni

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country’s train services need to improve in order to cater for the millions of passengers.

The President officially opened the Gibela Plant in Nigel, Gauteng. He says people across the country should be assured that safety in the passenger rail services is guaranteed.

Ramaphosa has appealed to law enforcement agencies to make sure that more citizens feel free to utilise trains.

The Gibela Plant produces trains to improve the country’s railway infrastructure, but also committed to produce trains that will be utilised across Africa.

The President also promised that from now on, government will make sure that localisation of business is a common practice.

The industrial complex, constructed at a cost of approximately R1 billion, will manufacture, assemble, test, commission and deliver 580 new commuter trains.

The 72-hectare site at Dunnottar Park in the City of Ekurhuleni houses the factory, a supplier park and the Rail Training School. #InvestSA #OTM_SA2018 #TransportMonth pic.twitter.com/uB5tKl7Aak

— PresidencyZA (@PresidencyZA) October 25, 2018

 

Transport Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande has once again called for an end to the continuing trend of vandalising railway infrastructure in South Africa.

He says as a result he will be convening an Imbizo in Cape Town over the weekend, with the hope to put an end to this scourge.

President @CyrilRamaphosa and Transport Minister Dr Blade Nzimande on a walkabout tour of the new manufacturing plant being launched this afternoon #InvestSA #TransportMonth https://t.co/hCBOoD7g9y

— PresidencyZA (@PresidencyZA) October 25, 2018

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