TRANSPORT Minister Dipuo Peters’s directive that the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) halt a forensic investigation may come to naught.Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s office clarified that nobody can interfere with the implementation of remedial action recommended by the protector without taking its reports on judicial review.The instruction has also been met with resistance by Prasa board chairman Popo Molefe, who has cited the Constitutional Court judgment reaffirming the public protector’s powers.The extraordinary development comes against the backdrop of President Jacob Zuma announcing this week that he would exercise greater oversight of state-owned enterprises, which have been a theatre for corporate governance failures.Peters issued the instruction to Molefe in a letter dated August 12. "Whilst your efforts to clean up the organisation and enhance good corporate governance are commendable, I am deeply concerned that this investigation seems endless and without a clear s...
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