CORRUPTION NEWSMPs grill Prasa board members and execs for inaction on pressing matters 08 Mar 2021, 10:11 Image: Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 By James StentFirst published on GroundUp 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 Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Activists protest against Prasa corruption 24 May 2019, 8:50 By Mary-Anne Gontsana and Katherine Liu First published on GroundUp Simo Kwepe was 16 when he was killed on the Cape Town Metrorail line last month. Keeno Abib died last year after he fell off a moving train while trying to get away from gangsters trying to rob him. It’s deaths such as these that Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS TI releases governance principles for SOEs 04 Dec 2017, 10:56 South Africa’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are not what could be described as the pride of the nation. The likes of Eskom, the Passenger Rail Association of South Africa (Prasa), the South African Post Office (SAPO), South African Airways (SAA), the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), and others have become a national embarrassment rather than a Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS What’s happening in the Prasa case? 20 Oct 2016, 10:57 If ever there was a campaign for how not to run a parastatal, the Passenger Rail Association of South Africa (Prasa) would be the poster child. In the current narrative of how the country’s state-owned entities can be better run to avoid multi-million rand losses due to poor management, Prasa is one of the talking Read more >