WATCH | Lockdown looting hits CT train tracks - even in broad daylight

But as the lockdown delays the Passenger Rail Authority of SA's R1.4bn “central recovery plan”, which will include walls and a security fence along the worst-hit stretches of line, an April 2021 recovery deadline seems unlikely.

As TimesLIVE filmed the man next to the N2 highway, law enforcement officers from the city’s rail enforcement and metal theft units arrived and apprehended four men loitering in the area beneath the masts. As the officers argued with the mothers of the men, a few men wearing silver rings and with gang tattoos on their faces threatened the suspects not to give information to the police - in full view of the law enforcement officers, who seemed unable to do anything but threaten the crowd with arrest for violating lockdown regulations.

“As you’ve observed today, the Bonteheuwel-Netreg-Nyanga area is unfortunately prone to crime and recurring vandalism, which lead to [the] total destruction of rail infrastructure required to operate trains safely,” she said.

CT ppl are special yazi....Its not cigarettes its alcohol looting...

So the problem has nothing to do with people needing essentials etc. They're just destroying anything and everything because they feel they can😔

We need a serious deterrence damage to property, rape and murder in this country. It's about time death sentence is brought back. Enough is enough!

Khayelitsha also,its bad

Then it's done, cause by their own community members. Let's see how they get back to work now. Government should not replace but rather allocate funds elsewhere

Looting hits the train tracks? This is got nothing to do with food or being hungry. I am sorry, when you have this mentality of breaking things up, wait let’s got to Africa and see if there are doing the something in Congo or Sudan?

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