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State capture update: September’s news and events

02 Oct 2024, 16:29

The Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) investigation into Prasa is yielding results, and the organisation recently revealed that it now has information on companies and directors that benefited to the tune of R776-million in total from the controversial R3.5-billion Swifambo contract for the procurement of trains. SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago told the SABC in an interview Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Former Prasa engineer Mtimkulu gets 15 years for fraud

05 Sep 2024, 11:04

Image: Wikimedia Commons, used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Almost a week after his former boss was sworn in as a member of Parliament, former Prasa executive Daniel Mtimkulu learned his fate in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday. He will be going to jail for 15 years, the maximum sentence for fraud. Read more >

STATE CAPTURE

State capture update: August’s news and events

30 Aug 2024, 10:53

The Constitutional Court held a special sitting on Wednesday 21 August in honour of Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, who retires at the end of August after serving 27 years on the bench. The event was attended by several dignitaries, including National Assembly speaker Thoko Didiza, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Thembi Simelane, and National Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Prasa’s ‘doctor of trains’ should get 15 years, state argues

20 Jun 2024, 13:31

Many people who have followed the corruption scandals that have engulfed the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) over the years will recall one in particular that involved the qualifications fraud case of its former head engineer, Daniel Mtimkulu. He was convicted of fraud and corruption in 2022 by the Gauteng High Court, after Read more >

STATE CAPTURE

State capture: Ramaphosa marks first year of implementation plan with report

14 Dec 2023, 10:02

The Presidency has delivered some good news, and some not so good news, on the state capture front, to end off a long and difficult year of responding to corruption. What is clear in a progress report, released in the last week of November, on the implementation of the Zondo report recommendations is that more Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

CSOs demand that Prasa cease harassing whistle-blowers

03 Mar 2023, 11:10

Image: Col André Kritzinger, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Addressed to: Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa Office of the President of the Republic of South Africa Office of the Speaker of Parliament Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Transport PRASA, hands off whistleblowers We, the undersigned organisations, call on the Passenger Rail Agency Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Honest Prasa worker refuses corrupt money, exposes insurance fraud

23 Nov 2022, 10:01

Image: Wikimedia Commons. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license By James StentFirst published on GroundUp and republished under an Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license A Prasa investigation has uncovered a multi-million rand scam involving bogus insurance claims.The scam was uncovered because of the honesty of one of Prasa’s lowest-paid people. Zethembiso Dladla came Read more >

WHISTLE-BLOWERS

Whistle-blowers betrayed by govt failure to protect them, despite promises

09 Sep 2022, 13:19

By Kwazi Dlamini Martha Ngoye has decried President Cyril Ramaphosa’s promise to protect whistle-blowers in South Africa, saying it does nothing to make those who decide to do right feel safe and protected. Ngoye, group head of the legal department of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), is currently on suspension pending the Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Prasa a failure on many levels – and improvement is slow and inadequate

19 May 2022, 15:24

By Kwazi Dlamini The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), like other state-owned entities (SOEs), is not what it used to be. The entity’s seemingly unstoppable downhill slide continues, and its board members do not seem to have the answers, according to the latest annual report, which was discussed at the end of March Read more >