Both provinces have seen significant damage to infrastructure most of which happened during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The country has been battling ongoing vandalism on public infrastructure for some time now.
Last Friday, a man was arrested in the Pretoria area in an operation involving the SAPS, the passenger rail agency, Telkom and Tshwane metro police officials while three men were arrested in Mpumalanga in a separate operation.
Four carriages overturned on Sunday after all eight cars of a train carrying 366 passengers left the tracks on a bend near a railway station in Yilan county, officials said.
The United National Transport Union says the company hasn't adhered to the terms of a wage agreement reached last year.
Last month, the council approved an initial business plan for the municipality to own the management of the network in the Cape in the hopes of improving the service.
An investigation by amaBhungane and the 'Daily Maverick' in June claimed the Gupta family entered kickback agreements totalling R5.3 billion with China South Rail.
The logistics group says the programme will now cost R312,2 billion.
Transnet is in the midst of a seven-year plan to expand the railways, ports and pipelines by 2019.
The minister said the project is underpinned by several critical economic objectives.
