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Alstom provides over 1,000 new jobs in in South Africa

The project is expected to create 1,500 jobs – a move hailed by South Africa’s Transport Minister, Dipuo Peters as “a catalyst for improving our infrastructure and for our economic development”. And 60 percent of the equipment to be used for the project are to be purchased in South Africa.

The first twenty trains were built in Brazil and two of them were delivered to South Africa in late December.

The plant is expected to be operational within 18 months and produce its first trains in South Africa in two years, according to the CEO of Alstom.

The South African rail network, neglected under apartheid, has been in working order since the fall of the apartheid regime in 1994.