Parliament’s portfolio committee on transport has resolved to establish an inquiry into governance issues at the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa). This followed the dissolution of the Prasa board by Parliament on Wednesday after a two-day briefing to the committee. The briefing was held to discuss Prasa governance matters and the recent axing of the former acting group CEO‚ who was seconded from the Department of Transport. The chairwoman of the committee Dikeledi Magadzi said the resolution was not taken lightly by the committee. "After two days of deliberations‚ the committee still did not have a sense of whether Prasa will be saved. It is important that Prasa works if we are to grow the economy and deliver on the mandate to get poor South Africans to work‚" Magadzi said.

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