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State witness fails to arrive for massive Eastern Cape rail theft case

8 December 2025 | ARTICLE

By Steve Kretzmann

Cheryl Sjoberg and Nadir Mohiudeen leaving court on Monday. Photo: Steve Kretzmann In 2012, former PRASA regional manager Mthuthuzeli Swartz, together with businessman Nadir Mohiudeen, allegedly fra...

We rode Metrorail in Cape Town to see if it has improved

3 December 2025 | ARTICLE

By Ishmael Mabena and Joseph Bracken

...PRASA spokesperson Andiswa Makanda. Makanda says PRASA is modernising its ticketing system to a cashless system and digital cards for validation. We asked what the timeline was for the rollout of card...

Parliament to consider impeaching Judge Nana Makhubele

11 November 2025 | ARTICLE

By Liezl Human

...PRASA) interim board. The second complaint related to Makhubele’s conduct and involvement in corruption while she was chair of the PRASA board. The JSC found that “the evidence on which Judge Makhubel...

Investigation into R17-billion rail signalling tender complete, says PRASA board

4 November 2025 | ARTICLE

By Steve Kretzmann

...PRASA to Maziya General Services. The PRASA board announced it would investigate the allegations, and on Monday stated the report had been handed to the Department of Transport. Meanwhile, allegations...

Passenger rail gets back on track, slowly

26 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By GroundUp and The Outlier

...PRASA) had collapsed. As corruption and mismanagement took hold over the previous ten years, the rail service became increasingly unreliable and unsafe. Almost all of PRASA’s customers stopped using t...

Explosive letter from PRASA “board member” claims tenders are being rigged

17 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Steve Kretzmann

...PRASA board member” says tenders are being rigged to benefit members of the board. Archive photo: Lucas Nowicki In a two-page anonymous letter a “disgruntled board member” has alleged that PRASA tend...

No train to Mitchells Plain: last steps to fully reopen Central Line

1 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Sandiso Phaliso and Yaseen Bardien

...PRASA still needs to complete work on the overhead traction equipment for 2km between the R300 bridge and Phillipi station, according to PRASA spokesperson Zinobulali Mihi. From Langa to Philippi on t...

Parliament sued for letting corrupt MPs off the hook

12 August 2025 | ARTICLE

Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

...PRASA). They were Fikile Mbalula, Mosebenzi Zwane, Joe Maswanganyi, Dikeledi Magazi, Sfiso Buthelezi, and Dipuo Peters. In April 2023, #UniteBehind started litigation against the committee for failing...

Former rail line occupiers demand electricity

8 August 2025 | ARTICLE

By Sandiso Phaliso

...PRASA had promised when they relocated us here,” Magebe said. Resident Phumlani Sibewu said Thursday’s protest was a last resort because they have engaged PRASA numerous times with no success. “It is ...

“Dishonest” Judge Makhubele found guilty and faces impeachment

1 August 2025 | ARTICLE

By Tania Broughton

...PRASA interim board and, while there, she involved herself in state capture. The latter was in relation to matters involving the Siyaya Group of companies in that she authorised, in an alleged “secret...