Western Cape Transport MEC Donald Grant said that video footage from the Cape Town train station shows that Sunday's incident may have been deliberate.
CAPE TOWN - Western Cape Transport MEC Donald Grant says that police need to get to the root cause of train torchings.This is the first incident of its type in almost six months.
A boost in security by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa , provincial and local government last year, led to several months of respite from major damage to Metrorail property. Last year, Prasa told Parliament that it has suffered losses in the region of R636 million due to train fires over the last three-and-a-half years.Grant said that video footage from the Cape Town train station shows that yesterday's incident may have been deliberate."Until we get to the root cause of this of what is behind, we're always going to be throwing public money at trying to repair the situation, instead of actually dealing with the root cause.
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