SADC to produce a regional transportation blueprint

While Angola and Mozambique are reviving railways that were destroyed during decades of civil war, South Africa has proposed tripling its rail investment to unblock bottlenecks in its exports of raw materials.

"The expansion of our mining and resource processing industries, which are key exporters in our economies, is going to depend on the growth of rail capacity and improvement in productivity," said public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba, according to News24.com.

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• News24.com: New rail plan for Southern Africa