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Prasa faces the threat of total collapse after shedding millions of customers, and haemorrhaging revenue over the past four years. Now its handling of a R7.5 billion overhaul and maintenance tender has the potential to deepen the existing crisis.




Transnet Freight Rail’s (TFR) Ore Corridor commenced its 10-day maintenance plan, which takes in electrical, perways (bridges and platforms) and technical support, on Tuesday 8 November.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday met his Kenyan counterpart President William Ruto on a state visit to the country.

With South Africa’s railways buckling under infrastructure deterioration, shortage of spare parts and vandalism, Transnet has asked the government for funding in a bid to make logistics affordable.

With South Africa’s railways buckling under infrastructure deterioration, shortage of spare parts and vandalism, Transnet has asked the government for funding in a bid to make logistics affordable.

The state capture commission has concluded that the Transnet board’s decision to reinstate Siyabonga Gama as CEO of its subsidiary Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) in early 2011 – after he had been dismissed for misconduct – was a pre-determined one, with a high probability that it was instructed by former president Jacob Zuma. The commission has also recommended that law enforcement agencies investigate whether or not Zuma and former public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba unduly...

The Zondo Inquiry established that racketeering, money laundering, fraud, kickbacks, corruption and many other financial crimes were the order of the day at the company that served as the engine of the country’s economy.

Hundreds of new locomotives lie idle as rail utility struggles to turn its ambitious road-to-rail strategy into reality.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has expressed Kenya’s readiness to diversify its partnerships in the ongoing revival and upgrading of the country’s railways

Kenyatta emphasized that the development of a robust railway system would help fast track the integration of the African continent