Hi there... Don't let anyone tell you that South Africa does not have the technology to build the rolling stock required to run on our rail infrastructure and that we have to run to our friends the Chinese to solve our problems.

I have personally been inside a number of state of the art factories not so far from the center of JHB CBD which are, as we speak, building brand new locomotives... '16cylinder turbo diesel state of the art locomotives'....

One such entity, a 3rd generation family business (not a foreign controlled, money siphoning machine) recently sold to a large local investment company (SA state owned) could manufacture these in its sleep. Why did they not benefit.... what happened to building our own economy, with our own resources..... job creation???? Please... all just spin doctoring.... lip service....

It's very sad....
Signed: Very Disappointed Local