ANTI-GRAFT MEASURES
Prasa will be safer from looters, says outgoing chairman Popo Molefe
Molefe is leaving the Passenger Rail Agency of SA at a time when directors are being shown the door at several state agencies
Popo Molefe, the outgoing board chairman of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), has told Business Day that he leaves optimistic about Prasa’s future and that much of the progress the previous board and directors made in improving the entity cannot be easily reversed. Molefe is leaving the agency at a time when directors are being shown the door at various state agencies, stoking fear that politically connected individuals are tightening their grip on state procurement to continue cashing in on lucrative deals. Molefe’s exit means he will not be able to enforce a high court order stipulating that Swifambo pay back R2.6bn for locomotives the agency procured from the company. It also means that investigations by Werksmans Attorneys into extensive corruption at the government agency could be undermined if Prasa comes under the leadership of individuals seeking to keep patronage networks intact. Molefe said Prasa’s efforts in stamping out corruption and implementing organisational t...
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