Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) chairman Popo Molefe has written to National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shaun Abrahams, pleading for help with a pile of cases at the rail agency. Prasa will also seek political intervention into investigations at the parastatal, which have been ongoing for nearly a year and come at a huge cost. The state-owned entity incurred billions of rand in irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. Former public protector Thuli Madonsela also flagged its supply chain weaknesses in her report, Derailed. Molefe told Business Day in an interview this week that he and Prasa acting CEO Collins Letsoalo had tried but failed to petition the state’s anti-corruption task team, of which the NPA forms part, to investigate cases the rail agency wanted to refer to the unit. The Hawks and the South African Revenue Service are also part of the task team, which is chaired by Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza. The task team told MPs in September it was investigating a n...
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