Looting on the Train Tracks (Carte Blanche video)

[John Ashworth]

Looting on the Train Tracks

For months, train stations went silent as the national lockdown forced millions of commuters to stay home, but on the railway tracks, opportunistic criminals went to work targeting state facilities that had been left non-operational. In a special investigation, Carte Blanche goes deep undercover inside some of PRASA’s railway stations where thieves have been stripping every piece of copper and steel they can find. Bit by bit and in broad daylight, they aren’t afraid to carry away the expensive parts that keep these multimillion-rand public transport facilities functional.