Damage to public infrastructure is ‘an act of sabotage’: Cyril Ramaphosa

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The president was updating the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on damage to infrastructure during the Covid-19 lockdown.

He said Metrorail had started to repair and replace critical infrastructure, including projects to rehabilitate railway tracks, reinstate electricity infrastructure, wall off rail lines, build and repair pedestrian bridges, station improvements and automated signalling infrastructure.

Meanwhile, the department of basic education has reported that more than 1,700 schools across the country were vandalised or had equipment stolen since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown last year. These include the theft of cables at a bulk water pump station in Gqeberha, the theft of borehole pumps at two police stations, and damage caused through vandalism at police offices in Qonce, he said.

“Of course we are facing challenges of a fiscal nature with regards to the availability of funding. That is why when people damage public infrastructure, they must realise that it is easy to damage but to rebuild it is much more expensiveRamaphosa said the government would continue maintaining existing public infrastructure.

 

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