The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) has been granted a commercial licence by the Railway Safety Regulator to run the "People’s Train, which are a type of new, blue-coloured electric trains, on the Southern line, in the Western Cape, and the Saulsville line, in Gauteng. "Metrorail Western Cape has been running the off-peak operations of the new electric trains on the Southern line since November last year, while running the yellow-and-grey trains during peak time.
