LOCAL Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) in Cape Town is awaiting the signing of an agreement by the City of Cape Town declaring the housing needs of the railway line invaders, in Langa, an emergency. Some community members of Philippi and Mitchells Plain say they are upset following the news that Prasa signed an agreement with the community of Siyahlala to move them into their areas. Councillor in […]
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), says services on certain sections of the central line in Cape Town will be reopened on Tuesday. The line was closed in 2020 when Lockdown Level five was first implemented. The recovery of the line was further delayed by vandalism and illegal occupations. Prasa spokesperson Andiswa Makanda says the City Cape Town to Langa via Pinelands and Langa to Bellville lines are ready […]
The Scottburgh regional court on Tuesday sentenced Sphiwe Mngadi, 43, to 12 years in jail after his conviction for tampering with and destroying essential infrastructure in the Mkhomazi area in April 2018. Mngadi was employed at the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) when he was found with 12 rolls of copper weighing about 192kg and worth R1m. On the day of the incident, two Prasa security guards on patrol […]
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has described a hefty prison sentence handed down to a train arsonist in Cape Town as a major victory. Ricardo Khan was sentenced this week to 20 years behind bars for torching a Metrorail train carriage at Eerste River Station two years ago. Khan, who worked at the Eerste River taxi rank, was convicted on a count of damage to essential infrastructure. […]
LOCAL After nearly two years of bruising lockdowns which saw Gauteng's commuter rail network destroyed by thieves, Metrorail commuter train services continue their slow comeback. Trains from Park Station to Naledi in Soweto were the latest services to resume, with three travelling the route each way daily. This is a far cry from the almost 200 trains that ran between Park Station and Soweto in the 1980s. While the trains […]
Director of Accountability Now, Advocate Paul Hoffman, says Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) Group CEO Zolani Matthews has been placed on precautionary suspension because his determination to fight corruption has made many people in senior positions at the state-owned enterprise extremely uncomfortable. Prasa Board Chairperson Leonard Ramatlakane said after a Board meeting on Thursday last week that they considered an “alleged sensitive matter of security breach and other […]
Cape Town commuter trains are running at 34% of capacity compared to 2019, when they were already on their knees due to arson attacks, theft of infrastructure, vandalism and mismanagement. Five out of 12 trains operated by Metrorail in 2019 are no longer running, according to a Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) presentation to the Western Cape legislature transport committee on Tuesday. And the central line, once Metrorail’s busiest […]
Train commuters in Pretoria and Cape Town should be able to access full train services again in November. That is if the Passenger Rail Agency (PRASA) meets its deadline to restore services. The Mabopane-Pretoria corridor is currently running on limited services due to cable theft during the hard lockdown. Part of Cape Town’s central line has been suspended since 2019, and an informal settlement has mushroomed on the tracks. Cable […]
Legal analyst and attorney, Raznae Narayansami, says government needs to ensure that the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) makes the safety and welfare of the public its priority in accordance with its constitutional mandate. The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of a passenger who was seriously wounded after being attacked while on a Metrorail train. He was robbed and thrown out of a moving train, through an […]
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