News of Prasa resuming its Shosholoza Meyl intercity train service this festive season, has been met with mixed reactions. Take a look... Prasa’s Shosholoza Meyl intercity train service will resume ...

Government has re-introduced the Shosholoza Meyl train, with its service resuming on Friday, 27 November, ahead of the festive season travel. Passengers will now be able to travel from Johannesburg to ...

Four people have died after a Shosholoza Meyl train collided with a truck and a car on Thursday in the Free State‚ emergency services said. Netcare 911 said on Twitter that it had confirmed four ...

Families hoping to travel across the country by rail over the December holidays will need to make other plans. The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has told GroundUp that all but one of ...

Cape Town – Travellers on board a Shosholoza Meyl train from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg on 4 January 2016 were left traumatised after “spending 31 hours with no water and food on the entire train” ...

Approximately 100 people have been injured after a Shosholoza Meyl train derailed between Hennenman and Kroonstad in the Free State on Thursday morning‚ according to emergency services. ER24’s Russel ...

It is no surprise that the Shosholoza Meyl long-distance train service has been stopped in its tracks amid safety and other concerns. A recent trip from Joburg to Cape Town that should have taken 26 ...

The Shosholoza passenger train travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town derailed early Wednesday morning outside Kimberley, injuring more than 100 people. The incident happened just after midnight at ...

Shosholoza Meyl's luxury train service, Premiere Classe, now boasts the first spa on a train in Africa. Amani Spa Group's MD Ronleigh Gordon says she has always envisaged opening a spa on a train so ...

I am awakened in the middle of the night by a sudden jolt and look blearily out of the window. In the inky darkness no land is visible and all I see is the heavens ablaze with stars. I feel I am in a ...

The lyrics of Shosholoza urge the worker to "go forward", and in his 1994 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela recalls singing the song as he worked in a quarry during his imprisonment on ...