PRASA / Metrorail
How close is Cape Town to taking over commuter rail?
Fikile Mbalula has been ignoring the mayor’s letters. Activists are now threatening legal action against the transport minister.
By James Stent
News | 20 December 2022
Metrorail Central Line occupiers protest over delays
Siyahlala and Philippi shack dwellers appeal to Cape Town mayor to get things moving
Brief | 8 December 2022
Here’s why you won’t be able to catch a train from Khayelitsha this year
PRASA misses court deadline to relocate shack dwellers on Central Line
News | 30 November 2022
Commuters say they are paying up to three times more because Metrorail is broken
#UniteBehind says good infrastructure, equipment, and security is needed to get the rail service fully operating again.
By Liezl Human
Brief | 28 November 2022
How an honest PRASA worker turned down corrupt money and helped uncover fraud
Over R9-million worth of bogus claims processed in just six months - in a scheme that could run back to 2014
By James Stent
News | 18 November 2022
Waiting for the scrapheap: hundreds of Shosholoza Meyl’s rusted carriages to be scrapped and sold
Most of PRASA’s long-distance train carriages “obsolete”
News | 3 November 2022
Appeal court trashes Siyangena’s R5.5-billion appeal bid
Ex-PRASA contractor “rightly found by the high court to have been complicit to the corruption, impropriety and maladministration”
Law | 1 November 2022
After two years the Ga-Rankuwa to Pretoria train is running again. We tried it
PRASA says it’s still working to get the Pretoria to Johannesburg line running again
By Chris Gilili and Ezekiel Kekana
News | 28 October 2022
PRASA’s deadline looms for fixing Pretoria’s ruined train stations
Stations on the Pienaarspoort to Pretoria line are supposed to be fixed by December. Some progress has been made.
News | 28 September 2022