Prasa

An obscure group of security personnel have been embedded in PRASA, giving them influence over the agency’s huge security budget – and more. Who put them there and why?

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Prasa bungles multimillion-rand plan to hire thousands of ‘volunteers’ as ‘guards’

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa planned to spend close to R200-million of its security budget on an ill-conceived community watch project that was rushed through despite questions about its funding and rationale. Now the bungled scheme is on hold.

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Prasa infected by a leadership ‘pandemic’ says furious former exec

The rail agency has been hollowed out by years of corruption and maladministration. Despite pronouncements on stabilising the “broken” entity the situation only keeps getting worse. Why? A former Prasa legal manager weighs in with a blistering exit letter which puts the blame right at the top.

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Commuters and rail industry feel the pinch as Prasa delays refurbishing trains

Despite having the money for maintenance and repairs, the passenger rail agency has not awarded contracts for several years, leading to a precipitous decline in train availability.

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How VBS bet on saving itself with Prasa money — and lost by the skin of its teeth

In an extract from his new book, VBS: A Dream Defrauded, amaB investigator Dewald van Rensburg reveals how executives pulled out the stops to save their foundering bank with a R1-billion deposit from the passenger rail agency — a state-owned entity, if any, that could ill afford it.

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Prasa

PRASA: the CR17 ‘spy’, the security cabal and the dodgy tenders

Prasa bungles multimillion-rand plan to hire thousands of ‘volunteers’ as ‘guards’

Prasa infected by a leadership ‘pandemic’ says furious former exec

Commuters and rail industry feel the pinch as Prasa delays refurbishing trains

How VBS bet on saving itself with Prasa money — and lost by the skin of its teeth

Prasa pays R3m to Mbaks’s administrator — just before court culls him

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