Thank you Chairperson. Indeed hon Minister, we must appreciate the improvements that we see in the quest to minimise manual train authorisations. We appreciate this because it will definitely boost the reliability of the transport and also improve the track conditions. This will also definitely have an impact and mitigate train delays, but it will also have an impact on the speed restrictions that the Minister alluded to. Therefore, we are mindful of what you have achieved in the 14 week period of the war room.
Minister, we want to know what has been the driving force that has propelled the Ministry and the leadership of the Ministry to drive this turnaround strategy, mindful of the fact that the recipients and beneficiaries of this turnaround strategy are the working class and the poor, and the fact that the majority of commuters were relegated to the outskirts through apartheid spatial planning?