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On Thursday, Acting Judge Moses Baloyi in the Johannesburg
Labour Court dismissed
an application for leave to appeal launched by the Passenger Rail
Agency of South Africa (Prasa) against the Court’s 2
March ruling.
That ruling reinstated three executives – Martha Ngoye, Tiro
Holele and Nkosinathi Khena. It came after PRASA
executives were fired under the instruction of Prasa s board in
controversial circumstances in late January and early February.
On 3 March Prasa Chairperson Leonard Ramatlakane indicated
that Prasa would be appealing the March ruling, calling the decision flawed
in law .
On 8 March Prasa Board member Smanga Sethene repeated this
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An application by Tshepo Kgare, Acting CEO of the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR), to appeal a decision of the Labour Court to reinstate company secretary Mamankoane Tabane, has been dismissed.
On 6 April,
GroundUp reported that Kgare had sacked Tabane although she did not have the authority to do so. Furthermore, Kgare failed to comply with a resolution of the board that had overturned her dismissal of Tabane.
Acting Judge Coetzee found that Kgare’s papers had not “raised grounds other than those in the hearing of the matter”. He further found that there was nothing in Kgare’s submissions to persuade him that “any appeal would have a reasonable prospect of success” and that Kgare had brought “no other compelling reasons why leave to appeal should be granted”.
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The acting CEO of the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR), Tshepo Kgare, was found by her board to have acted unlawfully and unfairly in terminating the employment of the company secretary. Yet the board has taken no action. Kgare is one of four candidates for permanent appointment as RSR CEO.
The dispute has also turned nasty, with criminal charges being brought against the secretary, Mamankoane Tabane, for holding on to her company laptop even as the Labour Court reinstated her.
On 8 March, Acting Judge Faan Coetzee in the Johannesburg Labour Court ruled that Tabane should return to work at the RSR, where she is employed as Executive – Legal Services and Governance, which encompasses being company secretary.
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The Johannesburg Labour Court ordered the termination of a disciplinary inquiry into former Crime Intelligence boss Peter Jacobs.
Jacobs and five other high-ranking officers face misconduct charges for their role in the unlawful use of a secret police slush fund to purchase PPE.
Jacobs claims he faces the axe because he uncovered corruption in the uppermost ranks of the police.
Former Crime Intelligence boss Peter Jacobs has been thrown a lifeline by the Johannesburg Labour Court which, on Wednesday, interdicted the police from concluding a fraught disciplinary inquiry that could likely have seen him fired.
Jacobs and five other high-ranking officers in the police spook outfit were suspended in December, while facing a raft of misconduct charges over the unlawful use of a secret slush fund to bankroll Covid-19 PPE – a precursor to an expeditious disciplinary inquiry, which had been set down for hearing in February.