Five people including the driver and an assistant sustained injuries.

Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) took journalists aboard the new trains it purchased from a Spanish manufacturer to prove that they comply with standards on 13 July, 2015.

CAPE TOWN – The Railway Safety Regulator says its investigators are hard at work probing what may have led to the derailment of a Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) train near Kimberley.

Five people, including the driver and an assistant, sustained injuries.

There was reportedly some sort of “miscommunication” between Transnet and the rail service.

The new train was headed to Cape Town at the time of the incident.

The regulator’s Babalwa Mpendu says the incident is concerning.

“Our objective is to achieve zero occurrences and we are trying our best to ensure that and we need the operators, train drivers and the public to work close with us to ensure the safety of our people on all our railways.”