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South Africa had a bullet train, the MetroBlitz, 35 years before President Cyril Ramaphosa first made his bullet train promise in 2019. The MetroBlitz was an experimental narrow-gauge high-speed train which, during testing in 1978, hit 245km/h, setting a world speed record for narrow-gauge rail that remains unbeaten today. The project began in the 1970s, when Herbert Scheffel of the South African Railways (SAR) experimented with self-steering bogies (trucks), which […]
Fancy a weekend break, an hour’s drive from Cape Town, then visit Riebeek-Kasteel, whch has one of the oldest hotels in South Africa where prime ministers stayed. The Royal Hotel in Riebeek-Kasteel is one of the oldest in South Africa, dating back to 1862. It has been referred to as the oldest hotel in the Western Cape, frequented by many notable guests in its long life. In 1661, Commander Jan […]