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|August 19, 2025
On Saturday, fans turned out in their tens of thousands to enjoy the rugby at Ellis Park.
On Saturday, fans turned out in their tens of thousands to enjoy the rugby at Ellis Park. Many would have used Gautrain, a wonderful example of a public-private partnership, and then transitioned seamlessly onto a Prasa-operated train that would have deposited them straight outside the stadium.
It's enough to make you weep that we should even be reading that with wonder, but there you are. We're congratulating fish for swimming.
It is precisely the integration between Gautrain and Metrorail that will save Ellis Park Stadium, because parking there is a nightmare—and then you have to make it out past all the tour buses and e-hailing taxis to leave at the end.
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