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A Metrorail train pulling out of Kalk Bay station near Cape Town. Rail transport in South Africa is an important element of the country's transport infrastructure. All major cities are connected by rail, and South Africa's railway system is the most highly developed in Africa. [1] The South African rail industry is publicly owned.
On 4 October 1965, during the Apartheid in South Africa, a passenger train of the South African Railways with up to 1500 black commuters onboard derailed, killing 87 of them. As ‘revenge’ the passengers lynched a signalman and beat up another railwayman. Thousands of local black people came together in a protest march towards the disaster ...
A Metrorail X'Trapolis Mega train running forward to Kalk Bay station south of Cape Town. Metrorail is an operator of commuter rail services in the major urban areas of South Africa. It is a division of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), a state-owned enterprise which is responsible for most passenger rail services in South ...
District Six also contributed to the history of South African jazz. Basil Coetzee, known for his song "District Six", was born there and lived there until its destruction. Before leaving South Africa in the 1960s, pianist Abdullah Ibrahim lived nearby and was a frequent visitor to the area, as were many other Cape jazz musicians.
Urban rail or Metrorail is specifically underneath the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa or PRASA. [41] Metrorail is a national system with a total of 478 stations, this system though is divided into four different regions. [ 42 ]
Metrorail or metro rail may refer to: Rapid transit, a frequent electric rail system commonly called a metro; Metro Railway, Kolkata, owner and operator of Kolkata Metro, India; Dhaka Metro Rail, MRT metro service serving Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka; Metrorail (South Africa), a commuter rail system operator in South Africa
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The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation by the people of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is generally recognised as being one of the few successful political campaigns of the Apartheid era, by writers and activists such as Anthony Sampson and Chief Albert Luthuli. [1] [2]