English subtitles available (click CC).
In 2018, I travelled solo on the classic Cape Town to Cairo route using trains as much as possible. Along the way I interviewed people on each train on subjects ranging from cross-border trade to the historic context of this train route.
As of 2023, post-covid, there are no long-distance passenger trains running in South Africa and Zimbabwe, nor in Botswana and Namibia. And, Sudan is in a state of war, so the Cape to Cairo by train route is not currently feasible.
Read about all my African travels in my book, "African Traveller: Twenty years of adventures as a documentary filmmaker" -- https://a.co/d/cXeq1vK