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Gauteng-Maputo rail line’s supernatural challenge

24 Apr 2023 - by James Hall
 Source: Railways Africa
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An unexpected supernatural development has occurred on the site of Transnet Freight Rail and Eswatini Railway’s imminent Gauteng to Maputo rail line, as ghosts rising from a cemetery relocated in preparation for railway construction are reportedly haunting a family’s farm.

Eswatini Railway is mum on the spooky matter because the company is not directly involved in the relocation of communities along the rail line’s route. The Times of Eswatini has reported the owner of a farm that is not affected by construction but is now a neighbour of the relocated cemetery has sent away his family and alone, he says, has faced the wrath of ghosts whose eternal rest has been disturbed by a multibillion-rand rail line that will provide a fast and direct Johannesburg rail service to the Port of Maputo.

The publication reported that the farm’s owner, Goodboy Sibandze, aged 49, “after putting off the candle at night, would hear some movements in the house and, at times, he would see light inside the room. He alleged that spirits, which he believed to be ghosts, would chock (sic) him. He said a ghost would sit on him while asleep, prompting him to wake up and pray.”

The Swaziland government is coming to the rescue by including the farm in its R271-million residents relocation plan announced this week by the Minister of Public Works and Transport, Ndlaluhlaza Ndwandwe.

Sibandze was given cash to relocate his farm. However, the ghostly problem is not yet exorcised. When word spread that Sibandze had used some of his relocation money to buy a car, other residents reported hauntings on their properties.

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