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President Jacob Zuma recently abandoned his motorcade and boarded a packed Metrorail train in Pretoria before he changed to the Gautrain to Joburg and then via Rea Vaya to Soweto.

As usual, Zuma was in a buoyant mood, flashing his trademark wide, toothy grin as he mingled easily with the admiring masses and some bemused commuters as he switched from one public transport mode to another.

He showed his common touch as he expressed his empathy for the plight of passengers relying on overloaded trains and Rea Vaya buses to and from their workplaces.

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