Prasa Rail News Today

While the cause of the fire is still being investigated, preliminary reports suggest that it originated from an underground tunnel housing cables belonging to City Power.

Front-runners said to include Richards Bay Coal Terminal chair Nosipho Damasane and two former group bosses who were suspended in 2019.

The chairman of Prasa, Mr Leonard Ramatlakane, has been stood down after an investigation found he misused property owned by Prasa.

In March the Cape Argus reported that Ramatlakane had occupied, since December, the Prasa-owned house for way less than the market-related rental, while his own house was being renovated in the north of the city.

Mbalula says probe into ‘ghost’ workers revealed that almost 1,500 Prasa employees could either not be verified or their files do not exist.

On the eve of a court ruling that the transport minister had appointed Prasa’s administrator unlawfully, the rail agency rushed through payment for his nine-month tenure.

. Recently the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) purged a number of its executives. But many of those fired have returned to work after the courts ordered them reinstated. On Tuesday, the Johannesburg Labour Court ordered, by agreement reached between the parties, that Hishaam Emeran (CEO of Prasa Tech), Tebogo Rakau (Chief Security Officer) and Nosipho Damasane (CEO of Prasa Rail) resume work on 15 March. On 19 February, Prasa Chairperson Leonard Ramatlakane announced that the thre...

. Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) board members and executives, Department of Transport (DoT) officials, and Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula were in for a grilling from Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) when they were called to account for the sorry state of the national commuter rail agency on Tuesday.  Scopa chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa (IFP), Bheki Hadebe (ANC), Sakhumzi Somyo (ANC), and Alf Lees (DA) showed no tolerance for empty answers. Hleng...