Railway regulator butts heads with Prasa and Transnet
Minister of Transport Joe Maswanganyi told reporters in Pretoria on Friday that he was mediating the impasse between the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) and rail operators, including fellow transport entities the Passenger Rail Agency SA (Prasa) and Transnet. During their annual performance plan briefing with Parliament’s portfolio committee on transport, the regulator said its tenuous relationships with other state organisations made it difficult for them to set and keep sustainable targets in their annual performance plans. Many railway operators, some of which are parastatals, are disaffected with the role of the regulator, claiming its operating charges and penalties — the RSR’s main source of revenue — are the only reason the regulator engages with rail operators. Prasa has approached the department as well as the portfolio committee, seeking a change to the operating fees the agency is expected to pay to the RSR, saying that the current dispensation is exploitative. The two ent...
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