Prasa collected information about train arson attacks since 2015, and stated that losses of some R636 million were incurred due to train fires from 2015 to January 2019. 71%, or losses totaling R451.6 million rand, occurred in the Western Cape, besides damage of R150 million to Cape Town Station. This entailed the burning of 214 train coaches, 174 in the Western Cape, and the remainder in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. Cape Town's fleet of 90 trains was reduced to 44, and only one suspect was arrested. Some replacement trains acquired at R146 million each could not be insured. Police ombudsman J.J. Brand found that the SAPS failed to prevent, properly investigate, or successfully prosecute those responsible. In 2019 teenage boys (aged 15 and 14) were identified as the arsonists who torched 18 carriages worth R61 million, while the torching of 24 carriages at Bloemfontein in 2020 was also ascribed to loitering youths.