Transnet-made coaches are 'brand new'

Botswana's South African-made trains are brand new - and not refurbished hand-me-downs - a top Transnet official insisted yesterday at a coach "rolling away" ceremony in Cape Town.Thamsanqa Jiyane, Transnet's engineering head of advanced manufacturing, said only the trains' "bogies" - part of the carriages' suspension system - were not brand new, because of a tight six-month delivery deadline that had been agreed upon by all parties.