PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORT
Minister poised to pull plug on Werksmans’s Prasa inquiry
Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi is set to put the brakes on the Werksmans Attorneys investigation at the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), which has cost R150m and is said to have saved the rail agency R2.5bn. Werksmans was appointed to investigate the scale of mismanagement unearthed in former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report on the utility, called Derailed. The Treasury is now investigating 130 contracts worth a minimum of R10m. Maswanganyi defended the Prasa interim board before Parliament’s portfolio committee on transport and signalled that he would be closing in on the Werksmans Attorneys probe. "The interim board is a full board and will be appointed on a permanent basis when the time is appropriate. Give the board time to do its work," he said Prasa was the worst-performing state-owned business for 2015-16 and was unable to table its 2016-17 report to Parliament ahead of the deadline. Maswanganyi said the major priorities for Prasa remained filling vacancies, ...
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