2013/03/08
“Can this government afford to look the masses in the eye and say: “we are prepared to subsidise the fat cats to fly, but we’re not prepared to contribute to the cost of your rail travel?”
UTATU SARWHU, South Africa’s foremost rail union, is locked in a desperate bid to save Shosholoza Meyl, the long-distance rail service that links South Africa’s main cities.
To achieve its aim, the union is trying to forge an accord between the four-
