Public transport in South Africa is busy reinventing itself. There are now two integrated rapid bus transit systems available, the MyCiti in Cape Town and ReaVaya in Johannesburg. They work well and are worth the effort of getting out of your old comfort zone and into a new one. The local train networks provide express trains into the cities. And of course the Gautrain has become a great hit, although it is unaffordable for most. If you take a taxi – flag down a Siyaya? It’s your locally produced Toyota taxi.

South Africa’s national airline is public transport in the sense that if you want to or not, you are supporting South African Airways and Mango with your money, because SAA gets bailed out with millions of taxpayers’ money every year. However, SAA employs 10,000 people in South Africa and abroad. They outnumber the other local airlines like Comair (Kulula), which has about 2,000 employees.

Personally, I am holding out for a high-speed train network for South Africa, like that in China. It’s awesome and affordable – and very unlikely that it will be manufactured locally. But we can dream, can’t we? In the meantime, individual transport in South Africa is growing apace.