Tim, how can you fail to see the logic of the ANC-sponsored Gautrain? "ANC - our stated policies are to uplift the poor out of poverty, inequality and unemployment. Should we provide a low-tech bus service (locally built busses) for them, eg at the Gautrain price of R20 billion and at R1 million a bus, we could provide 20 000 buses in the PWV area serving 800 000 per commute? Nah, lets build a system for 30 000 middle-class passengers (96% less than the first proposal) and give the work to a foreign white monopoly capital company, AND it will cost us R1.5 billion a year in subsidies to that company".
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!!!!!!