The frustration that come with waiting for a train that might never come.
By Dimo Wa Moraswi Sekele
If you have ever used a train in your life you know what patience means, you know how it feels to wait for something that might never come with no communication to inform you of the delay and the time scale of the delay. Well sometime you even wish they could just say we apologize for the inconvenience but that is never the case with PRASA.
I don’t really blame them, they have what they recently called out as a “Montana” problem. This is a collective name they use to refer to all their problems, named after their previous CEO Lucky Montana, the rot inside the agency is at an advanced stage, fixing it is going to be more costly than starting afresh. Well firstly they haven’t made profit in years, they haven’t maintained most of their fleet which happen to carry thousands of bread winners every single day. Every time trains collide, we are reminded of the dysfunctional signaling system and the extremely old trains that carry more than hundred thousand people every single month. 100 Thousand hard working South Africans that is.
Who on earth would incur a R13.9 billion irregular expenditure? Well PRASA did and if you think that is bad wait till I tell you no investigation is currently under way even after The public protector ordered that a forensic investigation be launched to investigate all Tenders with value of above R10 million. The order by Transport minister Dipuo Peters to PRASA chairperson Popo Molefe to halt all investigations into the tenders raise eye brows but I am not saying she is hiding something.
Cry my beloved South Africa
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